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.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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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?
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.
larping daddy's koolaid too hard... we know why.
bigger question how owner PR his good where they got broke ass pedons telling other broke ass plebs these talking points?
I think you might have borked part of your sentence.
Maybe it's cause I just woke up, but reading this after being totally unable to decipher anything except the mental image of the koolaid man in a LARP battle is the funniest shit ever.
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.
hmmm... solution is literally sitting in front of them. remember folks, wage theft is the single largest category of property crime ;)
jokes a side, this is the entire point of the current regime. "hungry dog is an obedient dog" said some guy on teevee during covid. even fake news felt it was too much as it exposes how they think of us.
there is a lesson in there tho
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.
they want people to riot over food, so they can justify murdering whole communities with their militarized police
Everyone should know how stupid this theory is because there's no profit in it.
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