Low Wage Life – Anthony Mejia

Low Wage Life – Anthony Mejia

People all across the nation have all been hit hard by this economy and how it has become hard to buy certain things you took for granted. The word poverty has been used for as long as people lived, and today this word at times has no meaning to some. As people live their daily lives not worrying about anything else except how they are doing, they never notice what people are doing under them in order for them to have the life they are living. Most of these jobs that people do are at times so gruesome that many people who live a good life can not believe what they are doing. Everyone dreams about having a life in the United States as it is portrayed in television of having a house and a family with nice cars in a good neighborhood. However for many this will never become a reality. Many people are born into the slums and “ghetto” of neighborhoods and are trapped from either their peers or by their own government. These people that live their lives in the slums understand that it is much to hard to get out and survive. Most people work two to three jobs only to be able to support their family at the bare minimum. Life seen on television becomes something that the poor want and strive for, however some people may not take the best choices to get there. Drugs have been going around the entire world for many years and are especially found in the poorest sections of America. The selling of drugs becomes a way to get rich fast and be able to get out of the life you are in now. As children grow up seeing people in their own neighborhood driving nice cars with the big rims, those children want that type of lifestyle and eventually follow what they see. Selling drugs becomes an easy way to make money, only having to supply a product for another person and receive money, not having to spend your entire days working hard labor. The drug trade becomes popular because it provided a get away from the slums, it gives you cash money, which you can use, on whatever you please on. The low wage life becomes something they do not want to do, and eventually just go into the drug business, only to live in a life of fear from the government and other people who sell drugs. People living the low wage life are persuaded to go into the life of drugs because of the possibilities of making it to the dream that they have always wanted. They could have the luxuries of fancy cars and nice houses without having to work as hard as they have been. This struggle has been a hard one for many people who live in the poor areas and need a way out.