I'm not hurting at all. I've never even spent anything I've earned at UPS. I've got no mortgage, student debt, credit cards, or anything else and I've got a lot of cash flow even with four kids.
That's not the point.
Living wage at 18 is just fine now. That's what the old guys got, and that's what the new guys can get. And a single guy can live on UPS's 18 and make it okay in most places. Of course everybody should work more than that. But the point is that the old guys didn't have to work elsewhere if they didn't want to, and now everybody has to and many still don't make it.