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$22/hr starting pay for retail is poorly paid? To essentially be a glorified cashier?

Come on. It doesn’t matter how much Apple makes or is worth. You get paid for the job you do.

I’m not discounting the workers or their positions, simply that retail, like fast food, was never meant in the history of the world to be a full time career. And if you wanted a career in that company, you would leverage your foot in the door at the lowest level to climb the corporate ladder through promotions and taking on more responsibility.

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Unskilled labor is still labor. A living wage is needed to live regardless of the labor performed. If the job cannot pay a living wage, it need not exist.