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A Career In Biscuits
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As Iowa Senator Joni Ernst tells her story about working her way up from a job at Hardee's, there are folks looking to poke holes in that Horatio Alger attitude, so you'll see articles like this Washington Post profile of people who actually work at an Iowa Hardee's to ostensibly prove that one can't work his or her way up. But when you read it, you find that most of the employees who are making their careers in minimum wage fast food jobs are people who... well, they have no real plans, or they have histories of things like drug arrests. There's not much they CAN do; vague ideas of going to community college don't really go anywhere, and their complaints about pay are contrasted with their spending on tattoos, cigarettes, and other inessentials. So, then, what do we do about folks like this? If you think they should get better wages, is that a reward for poor choices and limited skill? If you think they should be left to their own devices, does that put a burden on society by creating a permanent underclass? Yes, people can climb their way up, but some people are, for whatever reason, not going to be able to do that. Whose responsibility should their situation be? (Washington Post)
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