(June 9, 2021 at 10:48 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(June 9, 2021 at 9:39 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Why don’t people working in the restaurant industry deserve a livable wage?
You think that somebody taking a hamburger, sticking into a bag and handing it to you is worth a "living wage"?
I applaud your empathy and concern for others but your understanding of economics leaves something to be desired.
Businesses need to make money to be viable. They can't do that if they pay the employees a wage higher than the worth of an employee's work.
I am so sick of this. All you are arguing is that a human life is only worth what the rich are willing to exploit.
NOBODY is trying to argue that a fry cook should make the same as a neuro surgeon. But that fry cook is equally important, so is the garbage collector. What livable wage advocates do argue, is that those in the middle and working class, if they can support themselves without having to struggle and make enough that makes more people independent, and that gets more people off of the government dime.
I'd argue if you can't pay your workers a livable wage, then you don't deserve to be in business.
The billionaires of the word are fucking crybabies. Jeff Bezos is worth some 180 billion, and claims that he will go into space. That is fucking narcissism. Meanwhile that fry cook, that garbage collector, whom are providing needed services, they have to work 2 or even 3 jobs and still cant meet the rent.
Supply and demand everyone gets, and profit margins too. I am so sick of the right thinking the left doesn't understand this. What the left disputes is how society should go about getting more economic stability and maintain a open market.
There SHOULD be pay differences and different classes. But there SHOULD NOT be poverty at all in the richest country on the face of the planet.
