• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Why can’t we just have a discussion without insults

    Let’s be honest, “I don’t eat fast food so they should be allowed to pay slave wages” isn’t really a compelling discussion with nuanced talking points.

    Why is it on the shoulders of the desperate to not take any job they can get, and on the shoulders of the desperate to not get whatever food they can afford and have time for in between their 3 jobs?
    You know what would also kill the business model of “under pay and over work staff for low quality results then just replace them”? Laws preventing such behavior.

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      7 hours ago

      But they didn’t say that, they said the opposite… They’re saying they’d rather not support this awful business, and would rather watch it die so it can be replaced with real jobs that people can live off of. That’s how I interpreted it anyway.

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        5 hours ago

        would rather watch it die so it can be replaced with real jobs that people can live off of

        A faster way to do that: minimum wage laws that require people are paid a wage they can live off of.

        The’ve tried the whole “let’s not pass laws to increase minimum wage, people will just not take jobs that don’t pay enough” for decades. Jobs still exist that pay below poverty (minimum wage).

        If we agree that what they are doing is garbage and shouldn’t be able to exist, why are they arguing against doing something that would prevent it from existing?