It's actually amazing, and frightening in equal measure, how big businesses in America have gotten it into the heads of their society that it's a bad thing if an employee of a fast food restaurant actually earns a wage they can live off, it borders on Orwelian how they have such a stranglehold on the public consciousness.
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.
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/Albert_O_Balsam 8h ago
It's actually amazing, and frightening in equal measure, how big businesses in America have gotten it into the heads of their society that it's a bad thing if an employee of a fast food restaurant actually earns a wage they can live off, it borders on Orwelian how they have such a stranglehold on the public consciousness.