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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Employers do not want to schedule their employees for more than 2 days/shifts a week. [b]Uber, Uber eats and door dash keep the majority of the money from a transaction. After the Ebay fees and shipping costs there is very little money left to actually make any money from an Ebay sale.

Only about 1 out of 100 people who contact sellers on Facebook marketplace actually want to pay what the seller is asking. 
YouTube requires millions of views in order to earn any significant money. 
Online music streaming platform royalties are laughable unless you are a major music artist.   [/b]

Years ago when I was a younger person, call centers were the big thing among many younger people but now almost all of those jobs have been sent overseas.[/quote]

[b]None of these things existed 30 years ago when is the period I guess "when young people were able to earn decent money", yet there are still fast food restaurants, normal restaurants, amusement parks, ice cream shops, beachside towns, lawn mowing, babysitting, etc. where tons of 18 year olds are able to work if they want.[/b]

Your Youtube and Spotify examples are really nuts.  I mean, before the Internet you had to get major label backing in order to make any real money from music.  There was no influencer economy at all and you had to make it as a real actor in Hollywood or Broadway...which again, still exist...in order to make any real money.

I am actually surprised by hearing about kids with just like 20,000 instagram followers at least getting free stuff from brands and making a couple of bucks.[/quote]

They refuse to give significant hours to emplyees. 1 day a week is the norm now. [/quote]

Not really.  My 24 yo worked at an "elevated Fast food place" (not MCD, BK, CFA type) during HS and summers during college.  They typically got 40-45 hours during the summers.  They were such a dedicated worker that the managers were trying to convince them to drop out of college and become an assistant manager.  And my kid considered it as a backup plan if they didn't find a job right upon graduating college (live at home with us, make $65K as an assistant manager and continue searching for a job that used their college degree)---kid got a "real job" that used their degree but it was tempting.  Point is it's difficult to find good workers.  Whenever someone woudlnt' show up to the job, they'd call my kid, knowing that we lived 10 mins away and if they were not busy they would come in and work overtime (pay was $18/hr at that point, anything over 40 was 1.5 that).

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