I recently heard a statistic on NPR that completely blew my mind. They were doing a piece on homelessness in NJ, and the statistic that was given is as follows:

"A person in NJ, who works a full time job making minimum wage, earns approximately 35% of the yearly cost of a two bedroom apartment."

WTF? How do people who earn that little actually survive? God knows there is no way that they could thrive. Such would be a person who barely "scrapes by", and absolutely has to be a financial drain on the public service systems. Which is not to say it is their fault. For God's sake, they are working full time jobs. 

What job is it that is so worthless to us as a people? Do we no longer value menial jobs that perform a necessary function? Should all waiters & waitresses quit their jobs and move on to some cushy well paying job they probably can't get in the first place? Should they leave all of the restaurants with no one to serve their customers? 

I don't really know. 

What I do know is that there is a great imbalance in our countries wages, when those who work full time jobs, barely make enough to cover a third of their rent, and a CEO that has driven a company into the ground gets a $20,000,000 severance package, while we "the taxpayers" pick up the bill to keep said company from going bankrupt.