Minimum wage, minimalist life?

My heart bleeds every time I see security guards waiting meekly at the malls, looking at the passers-by at the mall he is guarding. I wonder if , with his measly pay and long hours, he could ever think if spending time and money with his children and loved ones at the malls just like the passers-by. I wonder if, when his kids stand drooling at the sight of mouth-watering buns and steeply priced roasted chicken pieces. Would he just blame it on his fate or live happily without a care in the world on credit and then blame the whole world for his dire straits?
RRB and his siblings had all been in similar predicament before. Peeking through the railings of of our balcony into the opposite neighbour's living room into the brand new colour TV and admiring the spanking colourful eye catching hues that scintillate from it; waiting anxiously for Appa to come back with a packet of Craven 'A' Meehoon Singapura at the end of the month and enjoying the once a month 'A Block' Char Koay Teow. We have been there!
As all of us can see around us, the gap between the haves and have-nots have leaped by leaps and bounds over the years, no thanks to all the capitalistic minded Government policies.
This is what the socialist minded leaders, with the helplessness of the workers' community at heart (since workers' right died before Merdeka), have been advocating all these while - minimum wage and an earning capacity to alleviate them off the poverty line. But how can you go and for how long can you sustain it. Humans has that insatiable appetite that cannot be easily satisfied.