They're getting what they want. By "they" I'm referring to the "living wage" people. If you do the math for a full-time line-cook at a dinner in CA, working 40 hrs a week, he'll be making $2, 400 a month. If he works for 12 months straight he's before taxes income is $28, 800.
Non-profits who mostly hire people who are college graduates don't get paid much - I've read some are earning anywhere between $30-35K a year. That's the range for a starting position. You're lucky if you're earning $45K within five years.
Now I'm no economic whiz, but that reality sort of leaves me a little bitter. A college graduate wanting to dedicate his life to public service is earning $10K above the official USA poverty line. A line-cook is $2K just underneath him. The salt in the wound part, say for social workers who belong to CSWE, is that CSWE isn't known to advocate for a higher wage for social workers -- a group almost uniformly supporting the "living wage" concept. There is a common rhetoric from social workers to say that they do so much for people yet their pay is diddly squat for a working professional. Now that's a tough pill to swallow. Adding more insult to the injury, many who advocate for a "living wage" are mostly talking about the McDonald's cashier, the Wal-mart greeter and the line-cook. They aren't including the social worker or the non-profit employee.
The disastrous march towards "equality" and "fairness" is leaving a dusty road filled with irony. I bet a decade from now the minimum wage will be pushed towards $20. Why even attend university then? I suppose the great joke about this is is that any potential future Leftist would be spared the debt, the four years of "enlightenment" and the posturing of other bushy-tailed 17-18 yr olds. They might get a job as a line-cook and add something to society, because, truth be told, I am fan of dinners. More line-cooks, longer hours, more food for me! I suppose I can rationalize it as a fair exchange.
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