Minimum wage is for people just starting out in the work force. If you're still getting minimum wage after a year, there is something wrong with you. Even convenience stores are paying a good bit above minimum wage now. No one starts out making $100 an hour.

The best course for an average person is to learn a trade. You can make almost the same money as a professional with a tenth of the problems and stress.

People need to stop whining. Anyone can get anywhere in life unless 100% disabled.

Minimum wage is enough to retire with 7 figures with minimal investments (2.5 out of 40 hours worth of salary per week). Actually do something in your life that gets you more than minimum wage, which there is a complete abundance of opportunity to do so, and you're wealthy at least a decade before retirement age. If you're willing to grind hard for 20 years you can reach unimaginable financial goals in just that time.

Whining and giving people excuses instead of spreading the almost too good to be true seeming objective reality is doing nobody but those who should be hung for their crimes against humanity any favors.

Probably more for the latter. Money is worth less today than yesterday and for people on the bottom, the amount they can make isn't worth it for as little as it can buy.