The Human Cost of Wage Obliteration
Seven professional certifications. low wages when work comes. Lived without refrigerator access. Lured across country twice with false promises, now tens of thousands in debt. When minimum wage should be $115/hour based on 1938 standards, skilled workers earning 3-5% of fair value isn't market correction, it's systemic obliteration. This is what wage collapse looks like at the human level. Not statistics. Real breaking.