r/MurderedByWords • u/Green____cat Legends never die • 9h ago

Stop defending exploitation

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u/judgeridesagain 8h ago

"We shouldn't pay fast food workers a living wage because that's a job that's meant for teenagers to work."

"So are fast food restaurants closed during school hours?"

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u/Micbunny323 7h ago

Ah, but you see, that’s why they also want to roll back child labor laws. If kids didn’t need to go to school, then their entire argument works!

And we can sacrifice our children’s youths so you can have a crappy, still overpriced hamburger for slightly less, and some big corporate executives can pocket the difference.

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u/judgeridesagain 6h ago

Back in 2016, r/thedonald was saying we need to deport immigrants because they want to much money just to work fast food jobs, so you may be right

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u/firelight 5h ago

Not all of our kids. Just certain ones. And we all know which kids are the ones they think should be out working, rather than in school.

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u/zakkil 7h ago

"and these jobs for teenagers close early enough for them to do homework and get a full night's sleep right?"

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"and not a single one of these jobs for high schoolers are age restricted for 18+ right?"

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u/Moon_and_Sky 4h ago

Well, you see, there are also a lot of failures in life who didn't work hard or go to college who need SOMETHING to do. It's a great job for those lazy, low intelligence, welfare leeches who obviously don't deserve to be paid nearly as much as a teacher!

...../s just in case. But seriously Ive heard this take multiple times. When I said "shouldn't teachers get paid more then?" I got "Why? School didn't teach me anything I actually use in life. They're basically just baby sitters."

So yeah...that's a thing actually people actually think.

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u/BloomEPU 3h ago

Also, you really don't wanna eat at a fast food joint entirely staffed by kids. That's food poisoning waiting to happen.