I know a man who worked at Starbucks, raised 5 children on that salary, and his wife was a stay at home mother.
What did he do at Starbucks? If the answer is a barista or bari
stud, that was not the family’s sole source of provision. Were they receiving government benefits of any sort? WIC? HUD? Section 8 housing? SNAP? SSI? SSID? Medicaid?
State programs?
Were relatives like grandparents, siblings, in-laws, etc. assisting them financially or with other goods? Was this man being housed by his parents, grandparents? Living on family land in a trailer? Lived on a family compound of sorts?
Driving a car that was paid in full? Lived in a state that did not require or had very cheap auto insurance?
They didn’t own a motor vehicle or shared one?
Lived off-grid, Amish style? Homeschooled, Unschooled, Gave birth at home with a family member’s or other’s assistance, didn’t register register births, didn’t register their marriage, IOW, were nonexistent to the state?
But then he could not work at Starbucks!
You don’t say whether this was in the USA, and if yes, where did he live?
What I’m saying is that a job at Starbucks cannot support one person much less a wife and five children without having other support.
If Starbucks was this family’s sole support, the father was not working behind the counter making coffee. Starbucks has higher jobs. Was he in an administrative job at Starbucks? That changes matters quite a bit. Did he own numerous Starbucks stores? Was he the CEO or at a level or two down from that?
Was he in technology or HR for Starbucks?
This story 👃🏼 🐟y to me.