And also, it’s going to put off the Norwegians.

Pro-tip to the fucknuts at ICE: Picking up a 40+ year old white doctor with two decades-old legal dings is not going to make you look any less racist and is definitely not making you look like you’re out there rounding up ‘bad hombres’.

For all those small-government conservative hypocrites, this is the face of a big-government police state.

I don’t want to get into the business of questioning accusers’ stories (as has been happening since time immemorial).

Spot on. The core problem is amount of pay, not the job, regardless of how the worker got there—by choice or by circumstance. Somehow (and we all know, or can guess how) the Minimum Wage was transformed in the public consciousness from a Minimum Living Wage to a Training Wage, and getting it back up where it belongs…

Fry cook isn’t good enough becaue assholes like you think it’s perfectly acceptable to allow companies to pay them less than enough to live. Guess what, someone has to be a fry cook or your food at the restaurant that hired him doesn’t get fucking cooked and then what?

You’re drinking some really stupid kool aid. There’s not a motherfucking job on this planet that someone else can’t fucking do. Your talk about the type of jobs and the money they should get is nothing more than you mindlessly spitting out the very rhetoric that the assholes who run the companies use to try to get…

None of what you’re saying excuses your classist commentary about the job of taking orders or the wrongness of it not paying a living wage. IF you don’t start the work of dismantling the political structure that gave the corporation more rights than natural persons it will never go away.

Regulatory capture is not a condition that cannot be corrected. You seem to be under the impression that this we should accept this regulatory capture and adjust accordingly. Accepting this is an unacceptable position.

They still need permission from the state to form. Perhaps if you didn’t have your head up corporations’ virtual ass you might remember that.

No, it’s a natural consequence of a society that doesn’t value work or the people who do it.

Yeah, there is shit wrong with it and first and foremost is that you can’t survive on that salary.

He knows what he sounds like. It’s why he’s doubling down on the condescending prick angle now and reframing it as “Fast food is dehumanizing”.

I guess I will respond to myself since Not Day Drinking decided to dismiss my comments. Congrats on working in a restaurant too. I worked in 9. Thanks for telling us how shitty we all are you arrogant elitist prick. Sorry you had to slum it for beer money with the proles.

Again, I was not specifically or deeply addressing the comment about the value of education; if you noticed, I said I agree with that education nothing but good. I was addressing the point that both Uncle Remus and Prostate of Dorian Grey are making below, which is the implication in each of your posts (or each that I…

I think a big part of the problem of retail is the stigma attached that you only work there because you literally have no other options available.

Can we stop using restaurant work as the “you fucked up your life” barometer? Some people aren’t cut out for a 9 to 5 square job. Some people are night owls and like the second shift dinner rush. I don’t restaurant anymore, but those are my people forever. Of course it should pay more, but that doesn’t make all of us…

I gave a list of several scenarios. Most of them had no temporality associated. If your critique is that I was too expansive to be persuasive, fair (would you believe I’m an editor? Never trust yourself to edit yourself.). And as in my opening phrase, I was specifically responding to your second paragraph, not so much…

You are pointing out that it is wrong to underpay people in service and manual labor fields, not that it is wrong to work in those fields. Your conflation of the two assumes that this system is the one we should continue. People should not have to kill themselves to make a living, but not everyone is interested or apt…

On your second paragraph - no, not necessarily. Maybe these jobs don’t have the glamour that attracts a childhood dreamer, but it is a choice some people decide to make, not simply because they have no other options. They might be there because they’re looking to move up (supervising, managing, moving elsewhere in the…