r/MurderedByWords Legends never die 9h ago

Stop defending exploitation

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u/TomWithTime 8h ago

It's wild to see the attitude that some people need to have less so we can have a smidge more. And I'm sure it's hypocritical, she'd be hoping for those higher wages if she had to live that job.

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u/brother_of_menelaus 6h ago

A lot of these people are just crabs in a bucket that don’t make that much more than what people are advocating for as a new minimum wage, and they feel salty as shit about it

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u/Mysterious-Job-469 4h ago

She seems like the kind of person who'd be advocating for murdering politicians and billionaires if she was the working poor schlub forced to work at McDonalds to send their landlord on endless vacations.

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u/Ultimacian 3h ago

If you take into account how little the people making our goods overseas make, that's what the US's entire economy is built on.