• tankfox
    +4

    They need a certain number of people to work at the business or it simply doesn't work as a business anymore. If the business is so marginal that it can't afford to pay people what it actually takes to survive then let it fold and be replaced by one that can.

    Isn't it interesting that the business who complain the loudest are the one serving the most unhealthy things to the public? According to a study by researchers at the university of California-Berkeley, more than half (52 percent) of front-line fast-food workers must rely on at least one public assistance program to support their families, so these companies not only make us unhealthy but burden our social services and pocket the difference. They're parasites, plain and simple, taking away much more than they provide. Let them fail!

    • redalastor
      +5

      Fast food is not actually profitable. The money the government has to pay to their workers in various social programs is roughly equal to the money the company pockets. So with liveable wages it'd break even.

      In other words, we're keeping them alive with public money, that doesn't sound the kind of investment a society wants to make.

      Maybe if we force them to provide liveable wages they'll reinvent themselves.

      Or they'll fold. In that case, I'm eager to see what solutions to getting food on the go will appear to replace them.

      • Rothulfossil
        +3

        I have absolutely no qualms with mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and McDonald's going under and being replaced by small, local businesses.