Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate
by bawolff on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:13AM
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Given they essentially shut down their business, not being a viable business (anymore) seems the obvious conclusion.
Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate
by AKSucks on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:41AM
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"If they can't give a decent wage [1] then they were not a viable business to begin with"
Yep. 1000%. If your workers need to be on any form of government assistance, you're being subsidized.
Mr. Factory Owner does all sorts of bullshit like paying unlivable wages, not having any employees working over the number of hours at which they'd have to pay benefits, and so on.
But guess who's always got enough money to donate to republican and libertarian campaigns, and has very strong opinions about 'pulling yourself up by your bootstraps' and how wasteful government assistance is?
If they can't give a decent wage [1] then they were not a viable business to begin with, regardless whether they can find some poor souls to work for them. If it takes a mandatory minimum wage to reveal that and bring their demise, so be it - let them stop putting a band-aid on part of the economy and have better businesses take their place.
[1] Which is not the same as: a wage someone will capitulate and agree to work for - there are always e.g. unregistered immigrants, single mothers working 2 jobs, people in emergecy desperately needing anything they can get, kids who just see it as a temp gig to get some pocket money but otherwise live with their parents, and so on, that are desparate for near substinence - or even below substinence...