The only real issue with this is that if you can earn a livable wage flipper burgers, what makes people want to go out and get the better, but harder jobs?
Better than just a "livable" wage.
Kolibri X posted...
High school tier jobs are meant to be temporary. Get roommates or get a real job.
So the jobs are necessary, but the people who do them deserve poverty?
People like you frame this issue incorrectly.
When you work a minimum wage job, even if it is full time, you are doing the least critical work for the company.
You will be compensated accordingly. If it doesn't combat your needs, like for some reason you would have kids, then you meet somebody halfway. The solution is to do things like get roommates and take public transit.
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no burger flippers, cashiers, or custodians and the company goes under.
how is that not critical?
Because there's absolutely no skill required, a robot can literally do those jobs. These jobs see the highest turn over rates because the workers that do then are so replaceable.
If you can be trained to do your job in less than an hour, that's about how long it takes to replace you.