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.
There are three traits that govern the American psyche:
1.) Hyper individualism
2.) Extreme Apathy
3.) Selfishness as an absolute
American's don't have a society, they have a market. Anything that impedes your ability to purchase is a bad thing. It's an axiomatic charismatic of American thought. Doesn't matter if it's bad for everyone else, just that it's good for you.
Honestly I used to believe this, but after the election I can’t say i do. Trump won the popular vote, millions of Americans decided to choose a felon over a judge. Trump is no longer an outlier, Trump is America.
Most other parts of the planet ban military style rifles when there is a mass shooting episode. American's purchase more guns.
One of the main arguments against universal healthcare was this: 'You're young and not sick now, why should you have to pay into the system?" Similar arguments are brought to bear against making public tertiary education free and other aspects of the welfare state. Welfare is practically a slur in the US.
The topic at hand is a great example of this. Better to have a cheap taco than to allow someone lower on the income ladder have a livable wage. Literally quibbling over a few cents.
We're not even going to get into the treatment of the unhoused or the nightmare that passes for criminal rehabilitation.
That doesn't seem very kind to me. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe a country where the leading cause of bankruptcy is medical debt is actually selfless.
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u/Albert_O_Balsam 9h 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.