Yes, I do know what inflation is and am insulted by your condescending question. I also know that inflation has been increasing at a rate higher than that of the federal minimum wage since 1968. Minimum wage hasn't been a liveable wage for a long time.

Need change, I don't know what will. The United States of America used to be the greatest country in the world. We've fallen so far because of the greed and and corruption of the people we choose to lead us and the deceitful way they manipulate us into fighting each other. They make us all into scapegoats to take the blame and attention away from them so they can keep getting richer and more powerful. Something has to change. The USA should be the greatest, most free country in the world, as it once was, but until everyone is rid of the ignorance that blinds them from the corruption of our "leaders," that's never going to happen.
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Work for such a small amount of money just because they don't have a degree, especially when it costs so much to earn one. The economy has evolved to make living easier and more comfortable for the wealthy while the poor struggle more and more. Yes, some people are lazy, and take advantage of an easy to obtain job, but in my experience, they don't last long anyway. Anyone that struggles to afford pay their bills and and feed themselves just because they weren't born rich should be paid enough so they don't have to, not solely for their benefit, but for the benefit of the entire country. Wage/inflation imbalance moves the middle class into the high class and the low and working class into poverty, homelessness, desperation, and prison. There are literally homeless people that commit crimes just so they can go to prison, where they get food and shelter at no cost to them, rather than trying to get back on their feet with the job market available to them. If that doesn't show you that we

Also, @felixo77, I can tell you've never had to try and support yourself while making minimum wage, because unless you work insanely long shifts and get a ton of overtime (which many of these corporations don't allow) it's not possible. A person working 40 hours a week for minimum wage grosses 1160 a month, take off 200 right off the bat for taxes, that leaves 960 to spend on rent, food, clothing, utilities, a vehicle, insurance, fuel, a phone, toiletries, and anything else they might need to live in and contribute to our society. I dare you to try and do that without needing help. Nobody should have to work more than 40 hours a week in order to live. And as far as high school and college students that still live at home or live on campus, they deserve to make more so they don't have to be paying for their education for the rest of their lives. I personally don't think a student should have to work at all during their studies, especially college, but they definitely shouldn't have to

or maybe the director wanted to distinguish himself from the author and get some credit for his own ideas in a time and market where it's extremely difficult to do so