Today, I'd agree. It felt like a dirty thing to even write.

Historically, the lower wage jobs were for kids or bored folk, who'd eventually move onto something better and higher wages.

Recently, the economy isn't great and people take what they can find. There's absolutely no shame in that. I know people in tech who were making low to mid 6 figures now doing retail. The jobs just aren't there, and I constantly fear I'll be in the same boat soon.

But that inevitably does lead to wage compression, which to be clear isn't the fault of the lower wage earners.

>I know people in tech who were making low to mid 6 figures now doing retail.

But in other threads, people on HN said they don't even get out of bed for a 140k remote job. What gives?