Minimum Wage - How can you survive ?

money has become our chosen medium to help us provide ourselves with our needs, but theres clearly serious issues involved in its uses and methods of circulation, its clearly obvious wealth is beginning to accumulate, which means more and more are struggling to meet their most critical and essential needs, this is most evident in our property and health care problems. yes we have done extremely well in reducing the cost of food and its redistribution, but this too is starting to cause serious issues, we re clearly over producing, and over consuming it, particularly in developed nations such as ours, but there are caveats with this to, some still are struggle with meeting their food needs, and yes some are due to the facts you ve stated, i.e. illness, mental health, addiction, etc etc etc, baring in mind, food insecurities can also play a part in triggering these issues

again, money is our chosen medium, and the fact we ve rapidly increased our global money supplies over the last few decades, and yet, we re still experiencing food insecurities, including in developed nations, we ve clearly made a major balls up, in what we ve been using this money for, as more and more are now simply unable to meet their most critical of needs, as discussed, i.e. property, health care, food etc etc etc

What I believe is the problem is how we view jobs and tasks. Furthermore, most people can perform a minimum-wage job with very little mental effort. Jobs paying higher wages usually require a higher level of education or analytical abilities. Some jobs do not take into consideration stress or the physical aspects of the job. Some could be worked to the bone for poor pay, while others sit all day on a chair, fiddling with things on a computer. A physical job should be paid more since it is harder work, but that is not the case in most cases,. Changing wages in some sectors would require fundamentally rethinking how they affect people's health and physical bodies, but employers would have to change their behavior too. Employers are also reticent to pay higher wages. Since we put capitalism and commercialism above people's lives in many ways. 

If you are earning minimum wage, what would make you think you should expect average standards?

Average includes people earning higher and people earning lower. If you are getting minimum, why would you expect to be higher than someone else who isn't at minimum level?

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Whos going to question it when it works out just as good the employee, WFP is not taken into account for full medical card, Student Grants, rent allowance etc..., so the employer down the road who offers a reasonable living wage at interview and the employee under same circumstance's takes the job can end up taking home the same wage as someone claiming WFP, but as the wage is taxable (WFP isn't) and 100% of this is taken into account when applying for above can lose out in getting the benefits, i think one of the above post by ChocolateIce as already mention similar, this particle employer as been in business 20 yrs, since WFP started this as always been his approach.

Handy money for her.

We are a very soft society if someone gets over 7 k for being asked if she was married and had kids, there was a time when he would have been told to mind his own business because it was nothing to do with the interview and that would be the end of it.

But now everyone wants money for jam and its the rest of us that foot the bill.

If he's asking those questions at an interview in Ireland, he's a very foolish and incompetent boss.

Derrycourt.

Securitas.

Noonan.

Synergy.

MCR Security

Those are some of the biggest minimum wage employers in Dublin alone and they have an abundance of exploited workers with barely any English.

(And before some smart arse posts a link to their latest job offering on jobs.ie with a 15p/h start rate, they hire these people exclusively through word of mouth)

Same could be said for some people who haven't experienced working a shite job for shite pay.