• mozz@lemmy.sdf.org
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      “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” -FDR

      Also:

      Che wants to see California legislators change their approach towards entrepreneurship.

      “Make that path easier. Make it less expensive, make it more simple, streamline it. Instead of putting roadblocks in front of it, open it up. Guide people,” Che said.

      Do we think this guy got a bunch of free money from the government during COVID?

      Oh look, he did. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it was a good program and good to make use of it. But, his whole attitude during the article of complaining about how difficult it’s going to be to figure out how to use it in such a way where he won’t have to pay it back really smacks of “I have never worked in a dishroom or behind a register even a single day of my life.”

      Be grateful. You fuck. Just like you should be grateful that our economic system gives you a little squad of people to run your business day-to-day for you and you get to keep the profits, instead of complaining that all of a sudden you won’t be able to have them do it exactly the way you want them to, whether or not it can economically produce a living wage for them. With lunch for the fancy people and all. You fuck.

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        They got a PPP loan.

        but the question is. Did they use the PPP loan like they were supposed to?

        because so many of those PPP loans just ended up being free money for owners/executives and the bottom rung workers who needed it most didnt see a dime.

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        “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” -FDR

        If you want to use a quote to make a point about equalitariansm maybe don’t pick one from a guy who threw 200,000 Americans into concentration camps

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          (From memory, so there might be tiny mistakes in the language:)

          “If we could climb the highest steeple
          and then look down on all the people,
          and shoot the ones not wholly good,
          as we, like noble shooters, should,
          Why then there’d be an only worry:
          Who’d be left to bury
          Us?”
              -Walt Kelly

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      And they don’t get that it’s not the regulations demanding fair wages that are the enemy. It’s low wages and high costs for their potential customers that is killing their business.

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        Also why is their voice so fucking amplified. Like why are we forced to hear their whiny bitching about how they have to pay a marginally better wage to their employees. ABC just went out of their way to find one annoying prick and gave them a platform to spew their procapitalist garbage. And if you have ever eaten at a place like this, the food is the most generic bland shit imaginable. These are the pricks who are complaining, exactly the kinda entitled fuckers you would expect.

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      Yep.

      Plenty of places are thriving with higher minimum wage.

      This restaurant crying this hard isnt because they cant afford the wages. Its that owners grew fat on the exploitation, and will now have to slim their excess to pay proper, fair wages.