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There isn't "plenty for everyone" though. The global GDP per capita is less than half of what these fast food workers are making, so if you want to share the wealth so everybody has the same, almost every working person in this country is going to have to take a huge pay cut, including the burger flippers, and in case you couldn't guess, the job just doesn't exist because nobody is going to open up a store or restaurant if the best you can possibly do is the same as the high school kid working at the register.No. It can and does work. You are repeating corporate propaganda. Lots and lots of people buy burgers and they can and should pay enough to support the laborers who make them... You just have a defacto FAITH in the system of exploitation. It's an anti human perspective. There is plenty for everyone if human beings are more important to you than profits or markets etc. less profit at the very top is a requirement for the lowest to have enough. Only a cruel psychopathic worldview doesn't want the least to have enough. No company should exist if it cannot provide a bare minimum to its workers.
Your worldview does require exploitation of others. It's an impoverished anti human worldview.
You got to start from first principles and first principles is every human being who works should have a basic dignity of life.
Global GDP is like $18k, so why don't you take everything you make beyond that and give it to people making less than that? Of course we know the answer is that you're only generous with other people's money.
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