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$15 an hour to flip burgers is the problem.
This is the 'reality' of many who are in the workforce today, they feel they should be able to get paid whatever they want, for doing as little as possible.
There was a study a year or two back that concluded most college kids thought they were going to end up in high paying jobs, even though their actual skillsets didn't lend themselves to menial jobs such as garbage collectors and janitors.
The problem is, when everyone thinks they are doing better than they actually are or, people are raised in a manner consistent with under-privilege, they harm themselves, because they don't see a need to better themselves or, think they can do anything to actually better themselves.
Much like how African-Americans perpetuate the perceived racism in society amongst their young, by telling their children they will be abused, mistreated and not able to get high paying jobs, African American youths will not aspire to do better because they are already raised to believe all they can do is flip burgers, sweep the streets and get low paying jobs.
You tell a child a lie for long enough, no matter what that lie may be and they will start to believe it is a truth.
Just because he grew up in a poor household, that is no reason why he cant aspire to do better than his parents and, his parents should be inspiring him to do better, not telling him he'll never amount to anything thanks to the 'white man holding black man down' or vice-versa as seems to be mentioned more prominently as of late among the white youth.
Bottom line is this, if you are raised as a lazy, government sponging scumbag with no aspirations of greatness, that is all you will ever end up being.
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