If fast food worker wages cannot sustain life then fast food is unsustainable and should die out. If fast food becomes as slow and/or as expensive as a restaurant meal then fast food is a market distortion that shouldn’t exist. Simple as.
Around where I am, fast food is the same price as some restaurants and only a few dollars less than others. For the most part they are faster though, so maybe there’s a point for people to go. Also easier to sit at a fast food place for a bit rather than take up a table that a server needs to turn for a while.
My mom talks about this shit all the time “flipping burgers isn’t a job!”, and demeans a shit load of other service jobs. She says those are just for teenagers to buy a car or to save for college (as fuckin if).
But theoretically, if they were only for teenagers and broke college students, you really think those millions of jobs would all be filled by people between the age of 16 and 24? Seriously?
Boomers are living in a fucking dream
My father pulled this gem out on me. I pointed out that fast food restaurants are open for breakfast and lunch, you know, while high schoolers are in, you know, school. And college students are in, you know, school. So by default adults who are not in school must fill 2/3 of the shifts. Surprising how fast he shut the fuck up when he realized that the job was, in fact, a real job that real adults with lives and children and rent were doing. He never said they were jobs for kids in my presence again.
These same assholes wouldn’t survive a week working a service job. That shit is hard and stressful as fuck.
the vast majority didn’t work their way through school either, and if they did, it was a bullshit job, not the kind of dangerous child labor they endorse nowadays. meat packing, construction, logging, they just want cheap labor.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-want-children-clean-meatpacking-plants-1782139
for teenagers to save for college
Makes sense. Average in-state tuition is about $16000 per year. At $7.25/hour, you only need to work 200 eight hour shifts every year to pay for tuition that year. Add that on to the 180 school days, it’s just 380 days a year.
Obviously, you also need to register yourself as a subcontractor via an LLC subsidiary of a foreign shell corporation to avoid paying taxes on that, and you live at home, so all your food is completely free, and everything is on the internet anyway, so you don’t need books for college, and your college which is obviously in your town is only a 98 minute light jog away from home.
“flipping burgers isn’t a job!”
What is it, then? A hobby? Are these people burger-flipping enthusiasts?
Boomers are living in a fucking dream
Meanwhile, everyone else is living in the nightmare they created.
“That job doesn’t deserve a living wage” = “I dont respect the people who do that job”
It’s people looking down on that work as being inferior to them and their job and them thinking “they shouldn’t get what I have”. It’s a view that jobs are better or worse than others thats been perpetuated by the rich. Belittling people who are not the top earners and making the argument that they deserve less that someone that they deem more professional.
What what these people should be saying is why don’t I get more for my efforts , not that others deserve less.
By keeping the anger pointing down, they stop you from looking up.
If you ever find yourself at work and think that another member of your team isn’t pulling their weight and that they are getting paid more than than you, consider that they might be, by some fluke of fate, actually be being paid fairly and it’s you who is being taken advantage of. Either put your feet up or stamp your feet on the ground, but don’t kick the chair out from under your peers because that’s exactly what the people who pay your wages want you to do.
Anyone wo worked McDonald’s on Christmas Eve deserves $25/hr! Making those ridiculous 1k nugget orders comes at the cost of humans dedicating hours of their lives to this shit.
Americans have clearly never heard the phrase
“Never fuck with someone who handles your food.”
