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The problem is not that working-age adults are failing to keep up with the abundance of jobs, but rather that they are avoiding the ones that do exist, calculating that the pay isn’t worth the atrocious conditions. Rather than raise pay or improve conditions, fast-food employers are transgressing the normal boundaries of the labor market to employ ultra-exploitable workers, from citizens of poor countries to teenagers to inmates.

✏️ The choices that are made are never about the circumstances or the humanity, but about cutting costs, exploiting, and getting away with shit. 🔗 View Highlight

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If a company needs workers, there are no shortcuts: it must remedy the situation by providing jobs worth taking.

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