In short- weak people always look for someone else to blame and there are a lot of weak people. Wether you make up stories about politicians and companies or you invent gods and spirits it shows a level of desperation to run from the reality of things and put forth self effort to better yourself and the world.
Perhaps it is a hood sign though that maybe this is a step on the social path to ridding the blame game as it gets closer to home- moving away from otherworldly spirits to blaming politicians, perhaps in time blaming neighbors will become blaming family and then finally looking at ourselves on a wide reaching societal level. Maybe.

For example, many employees who work “on location” do work like care taking or other sorts of work are provided things like meals and board which are often counted against wage and sometimes are not. Thusly these workers can often make minimum wage but be compensated in ways that equal greater than their pay might suggest. Minimum wage also doesn’t factor in jobs where one receives certain types of bonus or incentive, nor tips. So one can be paid minimum wage but receive an annual taxable income far above minimum wage. High end service, exotic dancing, certain sea positions etc. there are even executives in corporations who draw minimum wage as salary as a legal requirement but are billionaires because their benefits and stocks etc. far exceed their wages. So “minimum wage” jobs are actually a wide and varied category and depending on where you live, laws, what you do, the specific company etc. things can change drastically.

You also make a classic mistake- people conflate “minimum wage” to “low paying “ or “menial.”
Not only is this false, but there is more than ONE minimum wage. Of course examples like the US State/Federal/County/City which Can all he different to where in extremes, two stores across the street from each other could pay $7 and $15 minimum wage for the same job respectively- but there’s more! For example- in California, salaried workers exempt from overtime have a minimum wage of 2x the state hourly minimum wage (currently $15.50,) and thusly someone making $31 an hour working as a computer programmer would also be a minimum wage employee. Likewise, many jobs base pay on a 40 hour week but require regular or constant work of 60,100 hours a week. The actual pay by the hour for these jobs can be lower than or equal to minimum wage. You also must consider many various types of work that fall outside the retail or trades most represented in the job market.

Can depend a lot on where you live and other factors. 401k is uncommon but not rare- but I’ve never personally seen a minimum wage job that offered matching.
Many places mandate regardless of wage that any full time worker receive medical and health benefits and I have seen plenty of minimum wage jobs that offer benefits. Of course, it is common for minimum wage jobs like retail to intentionally schedule employees short of the hour cap to achieve “full time” status and thus mandatory benefits. There are actually a ton of minimum wage jobs that offer great benefits. Target stores for example will subsidize education for employees seeking a CPA and so long as you remain employed with target they will pay your renewal for your CPA.

Star Trek- the federation at least, comes closer to what we know as socialism or depending on the series etc. a sort of socialist capitalism.

I can’t count a whole lot of enduring and poignant speeches or prose that required the use of slurs to make any sort of point other than calls to barbarism and hate.
It’s a bit like arguing attempted terrorism shouldn’t be a crime since nothing happened, what’s next, being arrested for plotting terrorism? Then comes being arrested for making threats like bomb threats and surely any sane person can see how being arrested for threatening to kill someone is not only a fascist and unjust world, but a logical path to no longer being able to send your grand ids birthday wishes without being arrested by the secret police! SMH. Y’all watch too much Tv and don’t read enough books written by people who are literate on their own.
So indeed. Freedom to do what?

and more portable. To be clear I’m not saying kite surfing is better! I’m saying that comparing notes vs sails as far as for the application of use on cargo ships, the kite has certain advantages in the application which we can see mirrored in the much more relatable and easily understood Rev reaction sports mentioned.
On a cargo ship the kite also would not be means to provide full time or primary power, it would be intended for use to reduce fuel consumption by offering assist as able. Theory and then testing has indicated that the relatively low costs and complications of the kite can provide a new increase to profit through decreased fuel costs whereas sails as we know them and as modern cargo ships tend to run will generally create a net loss for the foreseeable future.

A kite is fairly simple and light compared to sails and can easily be computer controlled to automatically optimize operation. Kites allow windward travel as well as leeward.
The kite Can fairly easily and speedily be retracted and stowed and shouldn’t interfere with general operation like loading and unloading. It is generally cheaper and generally fairly easy to retrofit to existing ship designs, especially compared to sails.
A kite Can generally fly much higher than it is practical to raise sails on a mast or without the trade offs of a sail with a mast high enough to reach the same distances above the deck. This can give the kite access to more plentiful or powerful winds at different altitudes. You may have noticed that there are “surfboards” that have sails on them as well as “surfboards” pulled by a kite or “parachute.” You Can look up differences in the sports if you aren’t aware but it’s basically the same as above. Kites tend to be faster, easier/faster to learn, lighter,

There are other problems such as the training and complications of dealing with sails, especially large ones, the fact many bridges have a certain clearance which many modern vessels push the limits of and with sails might no longer be able to travel certain routes. Sails and masts and likely sparring etc. for the sails add weight that not only diminishes total load capacity but when you aren’t using the sails the ship takes more fuel to run for the same cargo weight. Lots of other little things. So why does a kite work? Well… a few reasons.

Sails, and several more modern turbine or air pressure based devices have a few flaws, a couple critical ones on a modern cargo ship.
“Cargo” ship. Modern cargo ships tend to maximize on deck and under deck storage while attempting to maximize the speed a vessel can load and unload cargo. What gets in the way and takes valuable space such as for containers or hatches to the hold etc? Giant pillars on the deck and obstructing crane or overhead access for machines to speed loading and unloading.
Problem 2? You could be forgiven for not being a structural or nautical engineer, but modern ships aren’t designed for sails. Their structures aren’t designed to support the weight or stresses and their ballast/keel, etc. are not made for them. You’d generally need massive overhauls to most modern cargo ships to fit sails safely and properly.

Did not work fit me, but manual upvote for your contribution to science.

So in such cases men must help themselves most. Not because that is the “manly thing to do,” but because who else can free you from a prison you are keeping yourself in except for you?

This is where the “men’s rights” debate tends to become a fight between those who make little or dismiss the problems of men and those who are hyper focussed on how they believe it is unfair that society focusses so much in problems for women or Trans etc. while seemingly ignoring mens struggles. All you need to understand to start to be able to reconcile things is this:
Women and many other groups exist in a prison of problems largely crafted by others- usually men.
Men exist in a prison they primarily create themselves. When someone is trapped in a prison kept in place by someone else, you can help them escape the guard. When you are the prisoner and also the guard keeping yourself in prison.. how can anyone help you? What do you want them to do, overpower you and force you to let yourself go and then fight you from putting yourself back in after you escape, all against your will?

When we are depressed, even if people are there and do reach out and do love us etc, we tend not to feel that or notice it because depression can and generally does rob us of the ability to get joy from things that would normally make us feel and to be thankful and mindful of the things and people we have in our lives. Depression can make us feel alone even when to the outside observer we have genuine connections. We tend to be so focussed on the negative, unable not to with clinical depression, and we tend when depressed to reject reality. We may have love or friendship but it doesn’t match our exact concept of what those should be and so we say it isn’t real etc. why many men would have depression and why more men might not seek help for depression….? Well.. we can chalk that up to “toxic masculinity” at large. Either the man sees it as weak or otherwise not what a “man does” or society pressures or penalizes against it etc.

Radiant heat from the vats- well.. the meme calls it a lava factory and in a sense that has some accuracy. The molten steel, much like lava, could cause burns and combustion of materials simply by being close to it. Standing on the rim, standing on the rim looking over- the Conners would kore likely fuse to the metal floor and rails like the T1000 did because of its “glitches.”
So indeed T2 was not a strictly accurate and believable film on the whole or in most details- but the steel works being there actually does make sense with some historical context and in the universe they’ve created where Fremont CA is LA CA and Cyberdyne is either on a made up street that doesn’t exist or in a small Compton residential neighborhood. Like many films the locations don’t line up on a map with the time spent traveling and supposed position of things relative to each other, but it isn’t internally inconsistent so much to the universe they built an alternate LA in.

.. but it would be reminiscent of what LA had been like.
Also fun fact- the presence of the steel plant isn’t the unrealistic thing (as stated- and there are still several steel plants following the Sacramento River/Delta and California Coast or costal rivers etc..) but the plant itself. While very cinematic, you wouldn’t be likely to encounter steel or most metals being heated in large open cars like that. Not only is it dangerous for obvious reasons like falling in or splashing molten metal- but it’s inefficient and would make controlling the temp and cooling rate if the metal very difficult. What’s more, the ambient temps would be so high that a human being couldn’t safely get near the cats splash danger asides.

Los Angeles and the Southern California regions around it have actually been major “blue collar” power houses for a long time and the surrounding areas are huge agricultural producers. Most people from outside the area or state just tend to think of Hollywood and all that stuff but most people in the area aren’t in that business, “average” residents have long been various trades and other labor. Industrial office parks like the “Cyberdyne hq” started to really spring up after the bases closed and alot of the manufacturing started to dry up or move. Often either in the large formerly undeveloped areas near these buildings or replacing them entirely. So it actually would make total sense and wouldn’t be TOO out of place in LA area to have a shiny office complex just down the freeway from a massive industrial plant. Though steel specifically had sort of dried up in the immediate area around the 1980’s or late 70’s, but if you were an adult when T2 was made the LA shown wouldn’t be exact…

As most know where the actual place is and the supposed location in a film don’t always match. Cyberdyne HQ was in Fremont CA southeast across the bay from San Francisco, but the address given in the film over the radio by police calling for help would place it in a residential neighborhood in Compton California- so the fictional LA is a bit different from real life. There is no “Pescadero State asylum” and the building was closer to LA proper. The film is set all around Los Angeles and the valley and even other regions (pescadero is quite a ways north of LA- a few hundred miles and much closer to San Francisco.) But LA is full of industry and especially had a history of industry. Hidden all around the area in plain sight is the largest urban oil field and 7th largest oil producer in the US. They disguise the pumps as towers and buildings and such but they are all over the city even Down town!