"Paychecks aren't growing", because a person with limited qualifications can't move from one job, that pays $7.50/hr, to another job that pays $7.60/hr?? Who writes that nonsense??
How about that person getting a decent education, cultivating some marketable work skills, and getting a REAL job?? In "my day", fast food WASN'T a career choice, it was something we did in high school, for some pocket money........