It is quite radical to suggest jobs for high school kids should somehow pay enough to cover an adult’s costs.

If every burger flipper needs a living wage for an adult household, the price of the burger has to rise or the job disappears.

It is quite radical to suggest jobs for high school kids should somehow pay enough to cover an adult's costs.

— DixieWoodsman (@dixiewoodsman) August 19, 2026

What is a living wage? Are you going to pay $40 dollars for a burger and some fries? If that was the price, then no one would buy them and dude flipping burgers would not have that job at all.

Rather than try to force your idea of how much money everyone should be making, try… pic.twitter.com/jDAlcsZyrX

— Meme The Human (@MemeTheHuman) August 18, 2026