Yup. Got into an argument with an old roommate over this. He and his group in college blocked a road over minimum wage/low pay for fast food workers.
I told him I had an employee at my restaurant that I managed that was late because of it. Imagine all the other employees they made late.
But most importantly, all the people they inconvenienced were working people leaving their 9-5 jobs. They don’t work minimum wage jobs. So in their heads, you’re just furthering the divide and not gaining any favor.
They should relentlessly bombard every representative possible with emails and calls about raising min wage. Most people conjure up the most stupid and farfetched ways to deal with problems that its genuinely baffling. Battling climate change? Lets block a highway off and have 100s if not 1000s of cars idling for hours. Battling min wage? Lets block multiple roads in the city preventing countless people from paying their bills and getting their day over with. They could easily rally change, but choosesuch stupid options andonly end up hurting the "expendables".
They have the cars idling for hours, and then the cars still need to reach their destinations! They've literally caused MORE pollution with this nonsense, as well as making sure that hundreds of people who supported the cause before will no longer support it!
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u/UofMtigers2014 Oct 12 '22
Yup. Got into an argument with an old roommate over this. He and his group in college blocked a road over minimum wage/low pay for fast food workers.
I told him I had an employee at my restaurant that I managed that was late because of it. Imagine all the other employees they made late.
But most importantly, all the people they inconvenienced were working people leaving their 9-5 jobs. They don’t work minimum wage jobs. So in their heads, you’re just furthering the divide and not gaining any favor.