i'm an idiot is your answer?
It was a statement not an answer, an observation regarding your ignorance.
so everybody deserves to make $40K a year as their first job?
What I'm saying is the minimum wage should absolutely be raised, it's long over do and if we go by inflation over the years, the minimum wage should actually be $21/hr.
No one said anything about 40K either for your first job. btw $15/hr is about $31k annually.
It's funny though, when you're talking about south side Chicago, as if you know anything about that, you mention opportunities like McDonald's, Taco Bell, etc. You know how much that pays? $8.25/hr which is about $17,100 annually. You think anyone can survive off that? Of course not. The point is there are very little opportunities, so little it forces people to do other things to get by.
do you know what "entry level" means? do you know what "work history" means? kids all day go on the block and get drug or gun charges. instead of getting a bullshit "entry level" job, they go and fuck around to prove a point to society and their counterparts. they catch a case then they can't get a job no more. building a work history becomes that much difficult. that shits all day. maybe not where your at, but it's very obvious you are the one not in touch with reality.
And here you go stereotyping an entire city again. You think every single person on the south side is fucking around on the block selling drugs? Do you even know why the youth is on the block fucking around in the first damn place? Because of exactly what we've been talking about - lack of resources, lack of education, lack opportunities, lack of everything. Sure, you can get an entry job at McDonald's making your $17k a year then what? Get a job at the thousands of flourishing businesses in the south side that hire McDonald's employees?
There is so much more data you're lacking, the history of Chicago, gentrification, literally pushing black people out of neighborhoods and into the poorest least desirable locations, creating an extremely segregated city, extremely poor underfunded public school system which leads to high dropout rates, unemployment, not to mention massive corruption in every part of the local government down to the police force etc etc etc that have all led to these conditions that resemble a fucking warzone in certain areas where the circumstances are so dire and so depressing there is literally no way out for thousands of people. The choices for many is literally sell drugs or prostitution. You really have no clue what you're saying here.