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Wintermute  ·  3340 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It’s Getting Harder To Move Beyond A Minimum-Wage Job

    Minimum-wage jobs are meant to be the first rung on a career ladder, a chance for entry-level workers to prove themselves before earning a promotion or moving on to other, better-paying jobs.

Is that really true for a significant percentage of people? The only minimum wage job I ever worked was in high school, and it had nothing at all to do with my later, greater than minimum wage, jobs.