Yeah i am. We get so many people posting chat threads, when there is a main one already. So we just lock threads like that now. And i dont know about your other thread, possibly it was old??
The whole "home of the brave thing" is out the window too, so that'd be my answer for your question as to why wages keep going up. We have had alot of police brutality in recent protests, and nobody fights back or increases efforts, they just cry and say "we're being peaceful!"
Yeah, well, look where being peaceful has gotten us so far
That find it really upsetting too, that your visit to the U.S. was so disappointing, makes me feel a tinge of shame I must admit. Are things much better in your neck of the woods, if at all?
I know for a fact that I can make more for doing less, I've had jobs like that before. They were by no means lazy do-nothing-over-paid gigs, but they weren't as. . . painful as this job, and paid MUCH more.
Working hard in an unsanitary environment (the warehouse is fucking FILTHY), under shitty weather conditions, doing things at such a pace that minor injuries are constant and major incidence are inevitable, all for a wage that simply allows me to afford basic shelter, food, and transport. . .
It's slavery, literally! All I can afford to do is preserve myself barely just enough to keep working. My money doesn't go to anything else, and I know there are lots of people out there living the same way, which is bullshit.
Man, makes me sad to see how most of my fellow Americans are havin' to live these days, yanno?