Whoops, you just ran off the track. The ambitious workers you so proudly espouse, were created by hard times, promulgated by conservative fiscal policies and greedy employers. The workers of today, are tired of always getting the shaft and are showing it in their work ethic. Pay a man/woman a liveable wage and I'll bet the ambition level rises exponentially. The bleak outlook for decent jobs has created an underclass that would rather smoke Crack/speed and deal drugs than work for minimum wage. Thankfully, I'm past that stage of life and can live on my retirement and investments. I'd really hate to be startying out in this job market, it's fucked.
Only you would post such negative bullshit.
I mean, besides the fact that the job market right now is fucked, the fact of the matter is that work in general is a lot easier now. The Socialist/Environmentalist/Unionist De-Industrialization of the United States through high taxes, absurd wages and other dumb demands has seen to that.
The increase in robotics and mechanization has seen to that.
Increased Mechanization will always eliminate the most undesirable jobs first, because they will always be overpaid relative to more desirable jobs from an employers perspective.
Who wants to risk have their arm melted working in a foundry for $12/hr or even $18/hr when they could work fastfood with out the risks for $8/hr.
Or even better, if they could get off their ass and learn a skill that pays better.
Totally absurd, the way you cry about the loss of unskilled labor when the economy is full of skilled positions that pay better. People that are too lazy to acquire skills should be left to fend for themselves instead of given free reign to leach off of those that have made the effort to acquire better paying skills.
Those that were not financially responsible in their youth should be left to their fates instead of being given free reign to steal from those that are now working.
Socialism is an ideology of unending Financial Rape where the only people that benefit are imbecilic bureaucrats while the working class, middle class and upper middle class get raped.
... Strange how that sounds a lot like the current state of the United States...