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Corporations want it both ways ...
... docile workers that will work for little or no pay, which make them poor and more apt to want to steal in order to get cheap food
... honest customers that won't steal, even if they become desperate because corporations refused to pay them a living wage to afford food
Economically speaking ... it's a no brainer ... pay people a living wage and pay for more cashiers to work at the front .. the company makes more money by securing purchases and keeping everyone honest and you maintain a workforce of highly paid people who go to spend their money with your stores anyway
Instead, we want to maintain a system where money and wealth continually keep getting shoved to ever smaller groups of people and we wonder why those of us at the bottom keep trying steal and rob the system just to get by.
'If you give a man gun he can rob a bank; if you give man a bank he can rob the world.'
It's not the job of corporations to treat people well, they're an entity designed to maximize profit within the framework they operate in.
A democratic government is designed to represent the will of the citizens. If we aren't happy with the way corporations treat us, then we should vote in a government that will regulate corporations to force them to treat us well.
The goal should be jobs that are boring to humans being automated completely AND not having theft because people don't need to do it in order to have a good life.
It get harder and harder for government to regulate corporations as they get bigger and bigger and are multinationals. That's what happens with tax heavens.
I understand corporations motives, but the parent commenter explains well that it doesn't work well if they are too greedy about it.
When do you do when your choice in voting is carefully handpicked insiders from a group that has insulated themselves from outside forces over the past 50 odd years and the only choices with a real chance of winning are not going to work in their constituents best interest?
You join those parties and start voting at membership conventions.
That's where actual policies get set.
Picking the last bad is why we are slipping AS A WHOLE in the wrong direction.
I get the whole living wage thing, but a cashier's position was never a living wage, in the past it was a wage used to supplement a family's income, or to pay for post secondary tuition. What changed? My local Wallyworld supercentre was the first in the region to go self serve, the manager said he couldn't find staff, but in all honesty whether it was a living wage or not, I think he just didn't want the staff.
The minimum wage was enacted to provide all citizens with a basic quality of life, including food and housing. Full stop. Everything after your incorrect statement is irrelevant as it is founded on an untrue principle.
My bad. I never knew a 16 year old working at a fast food outlet was supposed to support a family. I formally apologize as a white colonial male with priviledge
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sTuDeNts sHoUld mAkE sLavE wAgEs cAUse tHeyRe yOunG.
Did you know McDonald's workers in Denmark make over 20 an hour AND the food is cheaper than in the states?
You say that as if the majority of minimum-wage earners aren't, and haven't always been, adults. Go read a book.
They don't read. It hurts their brain to try
This is the same logic my old man has. I like to ask him if his breakfast is being made by a 16 year old on a school day.
How far in the past? I'm sure I remember unionized cashiers at, I think, Safeway getting paid comparable to me as a unionized welder in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I could be completely wrong about that, because I think it was the whole store on strike, not just the cashiers.
A couple of my aunts were cashiers around the same timeframe, one of em a single mom. I don't know how much they were paid, but they had decent apartments in Toronto around Roncesvalles with enough square footage for a kid and his cousins to get "up to speed" (I mostly recall the injuries)
That lines up with my memories in Saskatoon. Injuries aside :) By then I had my own son to manage!
A friend of mine, her father was a bagging clerk at a grocery store for literally his entire life. He was able to support two kids and a spouse on that salary, and retired maybe ten years ago.