Is it normal to hate being a slave to minimum wage?

Take this deadly tool
And feel the daily routine
You go to work for money and for me
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Metalhammer lovely tool
You�ll take it everywhere
Metalhammer lovely tool
Tell me what I am
Traeting you is the only thing I can
Thank you for the money
Help me to survive
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Help me to stay alive

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Based on 35 votes (27 yes)
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Comments ( 18 )
  • Think of it like this, jobs pay minimum wage for a reason. The reason is of the mentality...

    If I could pay you less, I would.

    it is hard to care about a corporation that feels that way so it is okay to be annoyed with them.

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    • Mr-Myrtos

      Please tell me how much is minimum wage over there.
      I live in Europe and I ignore it.
      Thanks

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  • thesurpremeleader

    i am not asking you to fight back i'm telling you to mass protest,boycott,walkout and don't stop till minimum wage is $15 an hour.stop working for dirt and protest the greedy rich.

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  • Killuminati

    This is the reason u feel like a slave, it is dun dun dun, because u are we are all slaves! We are slaves to the federal reserve it is a privately owned off shore bank that operates outside the rules and regulations of our own (corrupt) government. They own our money and if u haven't yet realized our money owns us! If this is new and shocking to u it's been this way for almost a century
    , back in 1913 some bribed politicians sold us to this slave owning banking cartel via the federal reserve act. Please I urge everyone to read and learn about this country's history. When you do you'll undoubtedly come to the same conclusion as many others. THE ONLY WAY OUT IS A REBALANCING OF POWER ( REVOLUTION)!

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    • Uzzie101

      "Freedom is being comfertable in your chains".

      You'll never be 100% "free" so you might as well just go with it. It's better to work for minium wage than have no money at all!

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      • Killuminati

        Your wrong I feel that true freedom is smighting your slave owner at the neck!

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  • Kmoney28

    Yes, I think it's normal. I'm a housekeeper and keep going around the park over and over again. It gets annoying, tedious, and frustrating. I've wasted a lot of summers there. The worst part is I have no one to talk too while I am working; so I talk to myself like that Milton character. When I am working I am thinking what am I doing I could be having fun and experiencing life. Everytime I see people come into the park, I wonder what kind of job that keeps well off. To me life is all about fun and games. Sort of like the Na'Vi on Pandora. They have fun all the time and know how to live life. Life would be so much simpler if people would stop saying it's not all fun and games.

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  • So much for the BS that unions are no longer necessary. Employment should be about dignity and decency. I think the only way they will is for strong pressure to be on government to establish a living wage, and, unionization.

    Bud is right that they pay poorly because they can and would pay less if they could.

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  • hotchickie81

    Minimum wage jobs do suck... though at least you know there is a chance for a raise, since minimum wage often goes up annually. I work at a job that pays slightly more than minimum, but we are not guaranteed raises, which sucks. I slave away all day, and then the government takes my money. The rest of it goes towards bills and crap. So I'm basically left with nothing at the end of the week. I slave away every day, and for what? I often wonder what is the point of my life. Why bother? My bills amount to about $3200 per month. I take home $1640. FML!!!!! My hubby works too, and thankfully makes more than me, but he is taxed to hell, and still has bills to pay too. So yeah, what is the point of this life?!?!?!?!?!

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    • NopeNotNormal

      Well, chickie, since you put it like that...I dunno! Unless you're a trust fund baby, independently wealthy, a lucky lotto winner, or a celebrity, you pretty much work your ass off to pay bills and HOPEFULLY squeeze in some joy when you can. It's a bit blunt and rather depressing, but it's life. Better than being dead? Maybe?

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  • NopeNotNormal

    I don't recall saying life is all fun and games. Where do you get the shit you come up with? And stop being a titty baby. As mtnw said, you're the only one who can fix your situation. Why can countless people, day in and day out, do things to improve the quality of their lives but you can't? I feel so sorry for Bethany and your spawn - not having a real man in their lives will be shitty for them.

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  • mtnw

    you are the only one who can fix your situation.

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  • dingzilla

    Join the marine corps ohh rahh

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  • tygeronherbed

    save your money, go to school, get a degree, get a better job, make more money. simple!

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    • Wow, I wish I lived in a "pipe dream" like your boyfriend and you. However, I know the world doesn't work that way and I am truly sad that your children will suffer as you are too busy fucking around to fix your life or work toward something better now.

      Enjoy the art degree and see how far it takes you.

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      • d3l33tm3

        I've got an art degree for the past 8 years since graduating have mainly worked for agencies. I'm on the minimum wage, and get called up daily if there's work, or not. It sucks. The job is noisy factory work. Standing on our feet 8 hours (or 12 but i never do 12). I hate it. It makes me feel so worthless and helpless, it's slowly bashing me in...

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  • NopeNotNormal

    Suck it up. IF you can ever manage to obtain employment, it'll pay minimum wage. That's all you'll ever accomplish in life, Bud. So again...suck it up.

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    • When you no longer can leaching off of your parents and are truly alone and have to survive on what you do and only what you do, you will then understand. But now, you are just talking out of your ass and thinking life is just fun and games when it isn't. So have fun badmouthing me but it is like a bum on the corner calling me dirty, it doesn't mean anything.

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