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> Have you worked in a restaurant or retail? Yes, both. > The real reason we want teenagers in low-skilled jobs is to keep wages low. Who are you speaking fo
by jacamera 3y ago
> Have you worked in a restaurant or retail?
Yes, both.
> The real reason we want teenagers in low-skilled jobs is to keep wages low.
Who are you speaking for? Do you own a business that employs low-skilled labor?
- krapp 3y agoNo, but That's just the way capitalism works. Wages are a cost that, like all costs, businesses are constantly driven to reduce in order to stay competitive and maximize profits. Hiring classes of people to whom society affords fewer rights and less social value (such as teenagers and immigrants) as a means of cutting costs through lower wages has been a mainstay of business since it was legal to send ten year olds to work in factories and mines a century ago. Tech does the same thing through free internships and visas, cutting costs by means of an exploitable legal underclass. The fast food industry wouldn't exist if it was treated as serious work for adults. But it's considered pretend work for teenagers to learn to build character on or whatever, so it's fine that it barely pays a subsistence wage.