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Is there a natural Human Right to be able to support a household on one adult income?

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dale74 · M
Depends upon how hard you're willing to work and having at least 100 IQ you should be able to become a plumber or an electrician making between 75 and 200,000 a year doesn't even require a college degree. Now you could have a really high IQ but have a college degree that isn't worth shit then no you need to get out and do something productive that society games worthy of a living wage. All minimum wage is meant to do is give you time to get an education whether it be trade school college or something of a useful skill so you can make better money.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@dale74 If we all train as electricians and plumbers, labour supply will outstrip labour demand and wages will fall. Skilled electricians and plumbers will be under-employed and their their labour inefficiently used. We need a good mix of skills and interests and we need state intervention in important areas of the economy where the free market clearly does not work. Nursing and teaching are generally under-priced by the market, notwithstanding recruitment shortages.
dale74 · M
@SunshineGirl great way to miss the point there's lots of jobs you can be a trash man you can be a ditch digger with an excavator you can be a plumber and electrician you can be a roofer there's a whole mess of stuff you can even pump septic systems if you want there are jobs out there that pay well but most of them are in the trade not a college degree see you back around the 90s they said if you don't have a college degree you're a nobody and so everybody got college degrees which makes college degrees practically worthless and when someone tells me they've got a college degree and they're young nowadays I've seen some of the work they put in the colleges and I'd rather have someone that ace high school and was honor roll student and outstanding citizen throughout his community then a college graduate.