Yeah after and during the pandemic a lot of manufacturing people left their jobs to go flip burgers because the pay was the same.
Yup, I've brought that point up alot about Canada in recent years
There is zero incentive to educate oneself because the pay for a higher skilled job is only marginally higher than minimum wage. Thus, the juice isn't worth the squeeze when you consider the opportunity & real costs of the education. This is true for the vast majority of "university educated" jobs at the Bachelor's all the way to PhD level.
It has destroyed our country. It's a stark example of communist policy in action: no incentive to improve, every incentive to leave for greener pastures.