Exactly SubjectMatterExpert. You are saying what I’ve been shouting into a vacuum for years. Who the hell do all the high earners on here think is going to make their coffee, scan their groceries, wipe their arses, empty their bins and clean their large expensive houses if there is no-one willing to take low paid roles? Can you imagine the chuntering if their cleaners or childminders suddenly wanted £25 an hour because “they didn’t want to be low earners” or wanted to get off tax credits. No-one then would be impressed with people trying to better themselves.
I’m reasonably clever but not particularly academic - health issues meant that I didn’t go to university so I ended up working in a low paid sector (hospitality). I was damn good at my job and had various leadership and management roles that within the public sector or a different industry would have paid twice or three times what I earned. Am I then just a loser or of no account because I “chose” to stay in an industry I loved, had scope for promotion, fitted around family life and kept my mental health balanced?
Those of you who look down on low paid roles should ask yourself next time you go out to eat at a fancy, expensive, well run restaurant with excellent food and efficient pleasant staff - how much do you think the person serving your food, the commis chef, the pot wash and the restaurant manager are actually earning? Added together it’s still less than you are, yet you would complain long and loud if the price of the food was put up to pay them all a wage you would deem acceptable to be earning.