Why don't Americans appreciate their opportunities?

Nobody was indicting the teller.

Ironically, the US delusion that there isn't a class system has everybody believing they are temporarily-inconvenienced elitists.

Nobody, NOBODY takes pride in their job because they think their current job is beneath them. Even if they do move a rung up the ladder, we just move the goalposts that this promotion is now beneath you as well.

Its amazing anything gets done because we end up chasing that promotion into a job that is above our skill level. If you're a good middle manager you'll end up promoted to management, where you find out you're no good at that level but you wont be demoted, you'll be stuck at your level of mediocrity. The best people are promoted out of their tier, the crappy people stay there and dont care to do the work. Its just mediocrity all the way down.

We've never had to actually struggle, so we think living better than 90% of humanity's history is horrible

>so we think living better than 90% of humanity's history is horrible
Counterpoint: 100% of humanity's history is horrible so only living better than 90% of it is definitely horrible.

this, the best 10% of a mountain of shit is still a bunch of shit

The trouble is people aren't given good work ethics. There's a difference between not doing your best because you're being paid less than you ought to be, and not doing at all.

How is working minimum wage in a retail job an "opportunity"?

Because (((they))) literally set our economy up so jobs aren't "opportunities" anymore, they're just cogs in a machine to make (((them))) richer.

Back in the day, any retard could finish high school, knock up his girlfriend, get a job, raise a family off that wage, and maybe start his own business later. Nowadays literally a single bedroom apartment isn't affordable to anyone making minimum wage. Nowadays you're lucky to find a job even with a college degree.

I can't wait until Americans get fed up with the wealth disparity and we get our own French Revolution going. I personally think anyone who works in HR should be on the chopping block first.

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>Grow up being told you're super special
>Never be told no
>Never be made to work for anything
>Hit adulthood like a fucking wall cause now you have to go from 0 to 100
>Convince yourself you deserve better and it's the world's flaw that you need to work for a living

BECAUSE WE AREN'T GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES, WE ARE GIVEN BORDERLINE SLAVE WAGES

LOOK AT INFLATION VS WAGES IN THE PAST 20 YEARS

FUCK

Thing is Capitalism was designed with the masses not being retarded and lazy in mind.
If a store did something shitty, you boycott them till they waste away or fix their shit.
But now people rather continue to buy from said store and use the goverment as a weapon to have their cake and eat it too even though it ends up limiting their own rights as well.

Who is the blame more in that situation, the person who went through all of their formative years with those lessons being drilled into their head, or the parents that were responsible for raising them correctly?

Except the guy who fired him?

Depends on the age.
If you're fresh 18-20 it's more on the parents, but as you get older, shit parents or not you hit a point where you're simply responsible for yourself.

Don't compare minimum wage to slavery. Slaves had housing, food, and healthcare. Minimum wage won't get you any of that.

oh shut up with the boomer bullshit you've been whining about this fringe "never say no" shit for almost half a century as if it's real

How bout you GET A BETTER JOB you lazy asshole?

Kill yourself faggot, I'm 26, I lived through, I saw it first hand plenty.

>Get a better job

Silly user, better jobs are luxuries nowadays. Only those with connections are allowed to have better jobs. Thank your capitalist overlords for pushing the 'networking" meme.

for one, thefts can sue employees if they stop them (unless they are specifically security or police or under cover employees who look like regular people or are actually undercover so the thief doesn't know). second, just like the protests say, one life is more important than all the merchandise has in a store, even if all the merchandise in a store is well over $100,000,000.00 (hell, at my warehouse, we have around a billion worth in cigarettes and tobacco at any given time.

>Thing is Capitalism was designed
Capitalism wasn't designed, that's part of the problem. There's supposed to be an "invisible guiding hand" formed out of the group consciousness from individual greed, that everybody doing the best for themselves will translate into what's best for everybody as a whole. This current soulless clusterfuck we live in IS capitalism, unbridled and taken to it's logical conclusion; They people on top say "fuck you, you want money then take it from me the way I took it from you" and the people on bottom say "fuck you too." It's a wheel of apathy so why should anybody take pride in anything that doesn't make them a billionaire?

>Old Man Tovar pays me minimum wage trash the place
Did Raimi make this?

In the end though it was the citizens who CHOSE to give the companies their money, to give them their power. Companies don't form out of the ether.

even working mininum wage in USA at 7.25 is better than working some fast food place in the phillipines or china or india. course, those places definately have people who make over 100x more money than I ever will in my entire life, but...

What should he do OP, die for his minimum wage pay check?

Actually people who are raise to see themselves as entitled are more likely to succeed. If you don't take no for an answer in a professional setting you are very likely to get everything you want eventually, because you have the confidence to overcome any setback to get what they want. The problem with people today is they've been told their entire adult lives that they are entitled and just need to work harder while they've been working as hard as they can just to survive.

only better jobs that dont require an education (yes, trade schools are an education. any job that requires you going to some school is an education except the military) are the military and warehouse jobs. real jobs i mean, not those youtube poeple who make at least $1,000,000,a month. or hell, even making $10,000 a month just from youtube is good enough to live on your own.

>company poisons the water table
>citizen's boycott company
>company goes bankrupt
>water table is still poisoned
Yeah, capitalism really solves everything doesn't it.

No one said capitalism solved everything you braindead cunt.

>I GOT A COLD LAST WEEK, CAPITALISM HAS FAILED

Ok but did Shocker trash the place or not?
That's all I'm here to see so someone fucking post the next page.

Or
>company poisons the water table
>company spends thousands on marketing push to convince people poisonous water is actually better for you
>company sees brand loyalty and profits increase

Or
>people boycott company
>company moves it's factories to another location
>people now have poisoned water AND no jobs

It's a great system, really.