I don’t understand how it is that the amount of money these assholes made per hour is the cause of the problem.
Yes, I understand that if this was a $100K/yr job, they likely wouldn’t be so reckless. (Not always true, but for this discussion, I’ll concede the point).
But don’t you think that if they could actually qualify for a $100K/yr job and get hired that they would?
Some people are too young, too uneducated, too inexperienced to earn large sums of money right out of the gate. They can get there if they apply themselves. In the meantime, they must work their way up the ladder.
But there is also a very small percentage of people who are socially maladjusted (perhaps even psychologically so) that just get whatever job they can hold down for more than a week. They need work, too. And I’m glad they can get a job somewhere.
But at the end of the day, I see no reason whatsoever to blame the goodwill of the company that invested in hiring those people, paying them a fair wage, and entrusting them with the responsibility to act like professionals.