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Originally Posted by MindBomber
If members of the service industry, who our economy is fundamentally dependant on existing, simply all moved to less expensive regions then who would work as a barista serving educated professionals in the nicer neighbourhoods. Hondaracer, in his infinite ignorance, seems to think a person should move to Alberta or take whatever they can get and stop complaining.
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Our economy is dependent on services, sure, but not baristas. 'Services' is container that includes much more. Software can be a product or a service, for example.
The market will set the wage. If no one can survive working there, the coffeeshop will have to increase the pay. Econ is a wonderful course to learn about how our system works and the tradeoffs you have to make. The theory is not common knowledge cuz ppl in the media really distort the facts.
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Originally Posted by Death2Theft
Thats all fine and dandy but do you really think everyone out there has the option to do that? What if at age 25 you were 100k in school debt?
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I would recommend that you stop at 20K and work coop or something to pay it off before moving forward. If you can't find anything, then maybe that's a signal to reconsider your major. God will not come down from the sky and save you from bad choices. Maybe this person with 100K in debt has had too comfortable a life!