The funny thing about “Jews won’t replace us” is that we don’t generally work in gas stations.

@likesnatural Their kids go to Medical School and Law School. That’s the American Dream indeed.

@likesnatural A very long time ago I met an Indian named "Oneal", seemed like an odd name, but ok.... I had a coworker who had met Oneal years earlier while working in a grocery store and Oneal had told him how he was saving his money. Then Oneal bought a motel, all ground level and probably only a dozen or so rooms. And a few years after that Oneal was managing a two story motel for a well known chain. I was told he also had a BIL in a nearby town who was also managing a motel for a well known chain.

While running a convenience store or a motel may not be the American dream they seem to have the ability to start at the bottom and work up. I would also bet there's a certain amount of networking and looking out for each other involved. Meanwhile we've somehow ended up with a generation of native born Americans who think the world owes them something. You know, "I should be able to afford a nice apartment and a new car while flipping burgers at McDonalds". Gotta raise that minimum wage.

@robb65 You had me until not raising min wage!

@Bumbles When I got my first "real job" minimum wage was $3.35 and I hired on at $4, driving 120 miles a day on an antique truck till I could do better. I worked and I learned what I could and every time raises were given I got one. A few years before that business shut down we were getting high school kids who couldn't roll up a fucking extension cord without getting tangled up in it. And you couldn't teach them anything because daddy was going to get them a job out at the mill and they just wanted a paycheck until then.

@robb65 Yup, for me it was 8 per hour. Not sure that’s an argument it shouldn’t keep up with inflation.