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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Food Strikes Expand Across U.S. to 50 Cities [View all]SunSeeker
(52,087 posts)We can't engage in a race to the bottom when it comes to wages. The third world will always have lower wages. We don't want to be a third world country. That is why we have to compete by being smarter, more productive, more innovative than our international competitors. We did it before, back when we poured money into education and infrastructure and R&D. And fast food jobs can't be outsourced anyway.
By the way, when you keep harping about how ridiculous it is for an 18 year old couple to pull down $60,000 together working at a fast food joint, that they'd be in "high clover," you are in essense saying they don't deserve that. I find that really offensive. Particularly since the couple would be making that if it was 1968 (in 1968 dollars), before Reaganomics fucked up our country. Workers, all of us, deserve a living wage.