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All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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Better and fewer working hours.
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Low-wage workers in the food service industry can’t afford to eat (prismreports.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Food workers are about two and a half times more likely to be food insecure than workers in other sectors of the economy

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

"It's supposed to be a low earning job for kids. If you can't find a better job, you deserve to starve."
–Assholes

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or my favorite. EMTs only get $15/hr. You think fast food workers should make as much as them?

No you asshole. EMTs should make more than that. Why aren't you fighting for everyone to make more?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Low EMT pay boils my blood. I have a friend who is a career EMT and the fact that he doesn't get paid enough for what is a back-breaking and emotionally-tolling job is enraging. He works harder than any CEO, that's for sure.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Despite the upvotes and the BS second sentence I am going to agree with "It’s supposed to be a low earning job for kids." Just like caddy at a golf course, and many others. The fact that our society is so broken people are forced to take these jobs and try to make a living underlines hundreds of other problems. I would rather see us fix all the others issues limiting the number of living wage jobs than worry about the pay of one sector. If that happened the fast food jobs would either be filled by "kids" or have to up wages to get any employees solving the fast food pay issue as well. just like @[email protected] says below things like "EMTs only get $15/hr" being fixed along with unemployment rates would go a long way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Here's the problem with "it's supposed to be a low wage job for kids", the vast majority of operating hours for fast food are either when kids are at school, or when they're sleeping / studying.

Fast food jobs were actual living wage jobs before chucklefucks tried to manipulate society into thinking it's only a shit wage, kids-only job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Like, when was the last time you actually saw a kid working at McDonald's? Cause usually it's some college age guy or some older lady.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

There are economic and progressive policy solutions to a problem like this but it seems Americans are more worried that a billionaire may have to spend a tiny fraction of their wealth to help fund these solutions and that is just unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Seems to me like food workers should strike. On the other hand though, that does seem pike it would disproportionally effect the poor. How to you attack the rich when their wealth so securely insulates them from consequence?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Rifles?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It doesn't need to affect the 1%, just the restaurant owners.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm a mechanic and I can't afford it.

Affording that trash isn't even your problem. If it isn't economical, it's theirs for not pricing it correctly.

Let it Mcfail so a Mcbetter restaurant can be Mcbuilt there.

[–] solsangraal 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they want people to riot over food, so they can justify murdering whole communities with their militarized police

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Everyone should know how stupid this theory is because there's no profit in it.

[–] solsangraal 2 points 2 days ago

lol why would they care about people spending money voluntarily when they can just take the money? civil forfeiture has already been a problem--do you think that's going to get better? lol