The comment is absolutely correct. Small, locally owned, franchises, and family businesses do it too. Back in 2015 or 2016, I sat at a lunch with the leaders of a business advocacy organization, and they were livid that Obama raised the statutory minimum salary to $45k or whatever it was, and how they could no longer pay an immigrant “manager” to work 80+ hour weeks for $31k.

The kicker? They were children of immigrants that did the same, except their parents were lucky to have immigrated back when buying a business/land was much cheaper. Land prices are now far higher for the newer immigrants to ever be able to save enough to get in on the ownership side of the business.

This is the reality now for many working class people in the US, and has been for some time. They end up working two part time jobs with constant scheduling conflicts, and god help you if you have childcare needs as well. It's very consciously and deliberately designed to minimize both employee costs and their bargaining power. I mean we have freaking companies demanding non compete agreements to work in fast food.

But god forbid you raise the point that perhaps we need a political shift that removes some power from corporations and restores it to labor, you get painted as socialized nazi commie scum or whatever. It's so insane and frustrating just how good a lock these businesses have on the situation (Don't even get me started on Walmart et all).

> But god forbid you raise the point that perhaps we need a political shift that removes some power from corporations and restores it to labor, you get painted as socialized nazi commie scum or whatever. It's so insane and frustrating just how good a lock these businesses have on the situation (Don't even get me started on Walmart et all).

To rational people this should be a no brainer. turns out a lot of people are not rational. the current system is not tenable in my opinion.