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Because of the low barriers to entry in her role, she is replacable, so they can get away with paying such a low rate - but don't look down on people who work in the service industry or retail (10 years retail here in my past) - because despite the low skill requirement those jobs can be extremely challenging.
I didn't, I'm not really sure what your point is with regards to my post no one said the job isn't hard the question is about the pay?
both partners have to earn well over minimum wage, 50 hours a week to even afford a mortgage.
Not necessarily, one partner can be the main breadwinner still the other might work min wage or might not work, depends on the circumstances. I'm not sure why min wage jobs should need to afford someone a mortgage etc.. and I'm rather skeptical about whether they really used to in the past anyway.
Min wage jobs are fine for say students, young individuals (such as this lady) or indeed partners of higher wage earnings who want some part time work. If someone wants to settle down and start a family though then just go and get some skills and get a better job - the government provides secondary education for free (including vocational courses), funds apprenticeships and provides loans for undergrad and post grad taught courses. There isn't really much excuse for not getting some skills in order to earn more than min wage. I mean even if someone is thick as pig **** they can still train to become say a brick layer and earn a decent wage.
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The point here was that the headline bill of £85,000 is just that, a headline, she's not going to pay it and realistically people with the sort of responsibilities that might be able to pay a bill like that are probably less likely to be the sort of people to have multiple prior instances of assault and to kick off to that extent on an airline (not that say high earning city workers don't get drunk and rowdy at times).
I do think that perhaps some sort of part payment could be enforced and rather than the comical situation where some judge decides someone is too poor to pay anything or can only pay a token £1 a week etc.. there perhaps ought to be some shadow fine/collection system via a similar system to student loans. Maybe she comes to inherit the parent's house/estate in future... oops not just IHT she might need to take into account but also this outstanding amount... maybe she finally gets a better job - well she can face deductions beyond a certain amount as per student loans.