The kid had more guts than 99% of adult workers.
Perhaps. I guess it depends on how you define “guts”.
No one is forced to work at Walmart. It’s their choice.
You seem to be under the impression that the kid was forced to work there.
You think what he did takes guts? I think it took a lack of brains.
The reason jobs are so dehumanizing today is because so many people are neutered and wimply. No pushback against tyrannical bosses and Big Brother employer tactics.
To hell with people who would hold this against a 17 year old forever.
While I'm at it, there is NOTHING dumber than bashing millennials out-of-hand. They, like us boomers, were at one time clueless about politics and the left/right war. We were lazy and worthless, just like the millennials, and many of us still are.
But a substantial portion of the clueless boomers became good conservatives.
But if conservatives keep bashing millenials, they will indeed become forever leftists.
Notice who doesn't bash the millenial age cohort just because they are young? Right, the left and the Rats.
Think about it.
In fact, Trump and Pence ought to have a Millenial Tour and go and rally about why Trump and MAGA are their best bet to restore and own the American Dream.
You are a disillusioned millennial? Come to Daddy. That's what Trump and Pence should be all about.
“The kid had more guts than 99% of adult workers.”
The adult workers have 1000 times the financial responsibilities of the kid. Americans have learned: If employers will abuse them because they know they have to pay the costs of families and mortgages, then they’ll have neither - and that is exactly what has happened. Now we aren’t trafficking Third Worlders here as workers (automation is making them increasingly irrelevant); we are trafficking them here as CONSUMERS. It is no accident that in dying states (like my state of NJ) the foreigners aren’t just working the registers - they are the main body of customers. Most importantly, the government employee caste needs them as “clients” - primarily as schoolchildren. More than half the schools in my town would close if we didn’t have imported foreigners (many anchor babies) filling the seats.
In the meantime, young Americans just transition into a lifestyle very different from 30 years ago; they’ll go to the grave without ever having children, owning a home, or even owning a car - they’ll rent everything and simply fade away.