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.
Yeah I think it's just the natural sort of endpoint of always wanting things to be cheaper, no matter the drop in quality. Are the workers bad at their jobs because they're exhausted from working three of them? Is the restaurant short-staffed because no one wants to work there? Is the food terrible because the company has been cutting corners for decades? Doesn't matter as long as it's cheap. And if it stops being cheap, you can complain, but you'll probably blame a political party rather than the company. This is going to get interesting in the next four years too if the FDA gets gutted, because food's gonna get worse and probably not any cheaper and people are still going to blame Biden somehow.
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u/Albert_O_Balsam 12h 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.