some people say they "don't have a choice" and they *have* to work as a waiter/waitress

But you know it's not true. They have a choice to refuse to work for $2.70; and anyone who complains about getting such a low wage after consenting to work on such a wage doesn't get my sympathy. lets face it. On FTR we all know that any monkey who applies themselves could beat NL100 for $10 an hour.

I'm going to add to this, because the fatalistic "OMG you don't fucking understand what it's like to be a blah blah blah blah stuck in the blah blah blah living in blah blah and studying blah" really pisses me off to no end. There *are* jobs that pay more than $3 an hour. They exist. And really, anybody can get them if they use their brains a little bit. If people didn't work for $3 an hour, employers would have to pay a fair amount.