03-25-2022, 04:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2022, 04:10 PM by Eric the Green.)
Liberal versus Neoliberal! An interesting old video and debate hosted by the late, great Gwen Ifill:
Should young people of color employed by McDonald's be paid decent middle-class wages to serve lousy fast food?
Should we even have such lousy fast-food restaurants? I say no.
Maybe if we required them to pay fair wages, that might encourage them to improve their product too. Or feel real competition from other restaurants that actually serve decent food, instead of carrying on a race to the bottom by big money CEOs making huge profits by offering lousy but cheap products and paying people poverty wages.
Consumers who have no money to spend cannot support small business. If people have no money, who will buy the stuff? The conservative bosses want taxpayers to pay these poor people, instead of paying their workers themselves. Neoliberals shift all their costs onto the rest of us. Trickle-down doesn't trickle. I say, no more McJobs. If Walmart goes out of business, hooray!
And $15 an hour is no longer enough in places like the Bay Area, where an apartment costs $3000 a month. I don't want to live in a city composed only of priviliged rich people who prey on others and think only about money. But that's what San Jose and San Francisco and New York are becoming. Feudalism is being brought back by such unfair high prices caused by speculators and corporate ownership too. Feudalism and the end of democracy is what the Republicans and other conservatives who support low pay and high prices are trying to create.
Should young people of color employed by McDonald's be paid decent middle-class wages to serve lousy fast food?
Should we even have such lousy fast-food restaurants? I say no.
Maybe if we required them to pay fair wages, that might encourage them to improve their product too. Or feel real competition from other restaurants that actually serve decent food, instead of carrying on a race to the bottom by big money CEOs making huge profits by offering lousy but cheap products and paying people poverty wages.
Consumers who have no money to spend cannot support small business. If people have no money, who will buy the stuff? The conservative bosses want taxpayers to pay these poor people, instead of paying their workers themselves. Neoliberals shift all their costs onto the rest of us. Trickle-down doesn't trickle. I say, no more McJobs. If Walmart goes out of business, hooray!
And $15 an hour is no longer enough in places like the Bay Area, where an apartment costs $3000 a month. I don't want to live in a city composed only of priviliged rich people who prey on others and think only about money. But that's what San Jose and San Francisco and New York are becoming. Feudalism is being brought back by such unfair high prices caused by speculators and corporate ownership too. Feudalism and the end of democracy is what the Republicans and other conservatives who support low pay and high prices are trying to create.