[Veronica Mars]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

No, the job market is booming, if you can’t find a job right now it means one of three things, your unwilling to relocate, you think the job is “beneath” you, or your not looking. A lot of people in this country want to be paid top dollar without putting in a lot of effort, when I was a kid we called this laziness. No one under 30 wants to bust there ass in a factory, they want to make millions playing fortnite, or doing makeup on YouTube. By the way most “poor” families in America have smart phones, air conditioned houses, cable TV, internet, and two cars. If you have those things and cry that you can’t afford insurance, or food you have a priority problem, not a money problem. Walmart manager salary is an adverage of 93,000, so pardon me if I don’t shed a tear for them. And VM, as far as my “privilege” I don’t believe you know me well enough to make this personal, but I will tell you that the little buzz words your lib arts professor told you to parrot don’t impress me.

I've actually never taken a lib arts class. I have a bachelor's in Anthropology with a minor in Social Science, but you know so very much about me, probably as much as I know about you. I work with the underprivileged daily. It's not a matter of the jobs not being there, no one has said anything about a lack of jobs, it's the lack of wages that is the issue. There isn't a state in the US where a single person can support themselves with a full time minimum wage job. It's also not about priorities, no one, NO ONE should ever have to choose between Being healthy and fed or happy and comfortable. Maybe you're right, maybe it's not privilege, maybe it's a complete and absolute lack of empathy.