Further along in Eric Schlosser’s book, he elucidates on the fact that a significant reason for fast food restaurants success is their employment of teenagers. He states how they pay them below minimum wage and how they were able to do because of the deal they made with the government which allowed them to pay underage workers a few cents an hour below minimum wage. Then how restaurants make it so that teenagers won’t have to do much because all of the food is basically made by a machine. Schlosser is now not only trying to exploit fast food corporations use of appeals to children but also how they are capitalizing on making more money’s off of teens by paying the below minimum wage. According to Schlosser behind closed doors fast food restaurants will hire just about anyone who they know won’t mind the below minimum wage pay. Fast food restaurants are basically just taking advantage of teens and others who they know will accept just about any amount of pay so that they could increase their revenue without having to pay more for expenses.
How do you feel about what fast food restaurants are doing to make money? Do you think its ok just because the people who work for them don’t mind working for little pay to pay them barely enough to get buy. Do you think this below minimum wage pay is ok because their workers really don’t do any work because they do have machines basically doing everything for them?
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It dont think automatic machinery determines how much money you should be paid. At the end of the day your still working.I dont think below minimum wage should be acceptable . That the point of minimum wage.We wouldnt need a minimum wage if they weren't going to abide by it.
I feel ashamed that people have bought into the lies of these corporate giants who are merely out there to scam as much as they can off of the common man.
It will never be okay to not pay what you owe even if they are illegal imigrants that will save you $.25 on the dollar. No matter what the job, every person is entitled to wages on which they can support themselves and their families.
i do not like tje fact that they are treating these people this way. i mean just because they will work for low pay does not mean that the managers should feel the need to continuously pay them that way.
i feel that they still should get the amount that they deserve because even though they are using machines to make the food they are still working. they still have to take orders put the orders in. then they do not use a machine to clean the bathrooms and the tables so i believe that they deserve the pay that they should have received from the beginning
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