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The Cruel Myth of the Gateway Job
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<blockquote data-quote="stamperben" data-source="post: 64886121" data-attributes="member: 294507"><p><strong><a href="http://goplifer.com/2014/01/22/the-cruel-myth-of-the-gateway-job/" target="_blank">The Cruel Myth of the Gateway Job</a></strong></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">For conservatives, one of the central arguments against a minimum income or even a minimum wage is the notion that employment is a value in and of itself. Taking a low-paying job, no matter how menial or dead-end is supposed to be an exercise in character that builds self-worth and places a person on the ladder toward upward mobility. Therefore, anything that prevents someone from working is contributing to sloth and moral decay.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Perhaps it was true once. There really was a time in America when an unskilled, menial job could be a gateway to a rewarding career. One of the reasons CEOs now earn 100s of times more than their entry-level employees is that menial jobs have become a gateway to nowhere. In a knowledge economy, the on-ramp to post-middle class affluence is located in a place fewer and fewer people can reach.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Research is starting to demonstrate the nature of the problem. People who take low-wage, menial labor in service industries or fast food <strong><em>at any point in their careers</em></strong> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/17/these-are-the-companies-whose-employees-will-make-the-least-money-for-the-rest-of-their-lives/" target="_blank">tend to have depressed incomes throughout their lifetimes</a>. If you ever work at Wendys, you have roughly a 5% chance of ever earning $70,000 a year. Working at Ford, by contrast, suggests a 50% chance of eventually earning a median income. Lousy jobs are a gateway to lousy jobs.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stamperben, post: 64886121, member: 294507"] [B][URL="http://goplifer.com/2014/01/22/the-cruel-myth-of-the-gateway-job/"]The Cruel Myth of the Gateway Job[/URL][/B] [INDENT]For conservatives, one of the central arguments against a minimum income or even a minimum wage is the notion that employment is a value in and of itself. Taking a low-paying job, no matter how menial or dead-end is supposed to be an exercise in character that builds self-worth and places a person on the ladder toward upward mobility. Therefore, anything that prevents someone from working is contributing to sloth and moral decay. Perhaps it was true once. There really was a time in America when an unskilled, menial job could be a gateway to a rewarding career. One of the reasons CEOs now earn 100s of times more than their entry-level employees is that menial jobs have become a gateway to nowhere. In a knowledge economy, the on-ramp to post-middle class affluence is located in a place fewer and fewer people can reach. Research is starting to demonstrate the nature of the problem. People who take low-wage, menial labor in service industries or fast food [B][I]at any point in their careers[/I][/B] [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/17/these-are-the-companies-whose-employees-will-make-the-least-money-for-the-rest-of-their-lives/"]tend to have depressed incomes throughout their lifetimes[/URL]. If you ever work at Wendys, you have roughly a 5% chance of ever earning $70,000 a year. Working at Ford, by contrast, suggests a 50% chance of eventually earning a median income. Lousy jobs are a gateway to lousy jobs. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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