Basic Economics

I never took an economics course in school, not in high school and not in college. Still, I managed to understand what the economy was all about. Basically your provide a service or good and you get paid based on what the market says your service or product is worth. This seems so basic, yet so many students are graduating from high school without this basic understanding.

In my part time job at caribou coffee I work with young kids ranging from 16-22. Most of them seem to think the job they have been hired to do is somehow owed to them. This is a significant problem in our culture there are too many students who think they are some how "above" working at McDonald's or some other fast food joint. The ones that do work there don't seem to have a work ethic that has any kind of integrity. They punch in before they are ready to work and they punch out 10 minutes after they are finished with work. Once punched in they insist on standing around until someone tells them to do something.

I don't know if there is a point to this entry outside of complaining. Thanks for reading.