America has become all too comfortable watching middle-aged adults take jobs that are more appropriate for highschool and college students who really need them more.
This is a sign of major economic distress in this country that has been ignored for too long.
Reserving fast food/food service type jobs for highschool and college students will ensure young Americans participate in the job market sooner which will over time lower unemployment and will enable college students to pay/afford tuition.
Employers should hire the best person for the job. Period. If that is a middle aged person so be it. I don’t understand this at all.
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Does it seem normal to you that in America out of all countries people 30 to 50 years old are still working a fast food job to survive?
There has to be a standard in this country.
The norm in this country is you go to college, work a high paying job, grow and invest from there.
Not stay working with the teenagers or go from a high paying career to flipping burgers.
If 30-50 year olds have to work these jobs to survive, what is your solution for their survival after these jobs are no longer available to them?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
We have to funnel the youth to make wiser life choices such as college to ensure they don’t end up flipping burgers their whole life which honestly hurts the country.
We can’t be a nation of poor uneducated people.
See why we need a standard?
The answer to your question is simply they’ll have to get a job appropriate for their age.
@Patriarchy_First In order for your solution to work, we would have to assume these “age appropriate” jobs existed and we would have to assume the individuals we are talking about are qualified for those jobs.
Realistically, I don’t think either of those assumptions are accurate. As a result, I think the more likely outcome is that we would have industries with worker shortages coupled with disproportionate unemployment for workers over 30/40.