Submitted 2 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to workreform@lemmy.world
Food workers are about two and a half times more likely to be food insecure than workers in other sectors of the economy
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.
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 Mcbetter restaurant can be Mcbuilt there.
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?
Rifles?
It doesn’t need to affect the 1%, just the restaurant owners.
they want people to riot over food, so they can justify murdering whole communities with their militarized police
Everyone should know how stupid this idea is because there’s no profit it in.
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
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 days ago
"It’s supposed to be a low earning job for kids. If you can’t find a better job, you deserve to starve."
meco03211@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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?
beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Meissnerscorpsucle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 @meco03211@lemmy.world says below things like “EMTs only get $15/hr” being fixed along with unemployment rates would go a long way.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 is 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.