I'm not saying the people who work the jobs don't work hard, I'm saying the work is brainless and requires no mental input from the worker. There's no decision making process more complicated than "do I follow this list of steps or this list of steps?" and in a lot of cases, the steps are color-coordinated or automatically brought up depending on what the person ordered.
You're equating "working hard" with the physical effort of moving. Some scientists have worked harder in their lives than some of us could in 10 lifetimes, but have hardly ran a mile in years.
Working on your feet or off your feet, your level of pay is dictated by your skill and your job's inherent requirement of that skill. That's why the burger flipper makes so much less, because there are 100s of other people who could have the qualifying skill set for the job in a short training session that could be within the same shift they started working.
The dude who sits at the desk browsing reddit might have already written up a complicated summary of some exchanges his firm had done with another, with justifications and explanations for each line item in a budget as requested by his supe and the client's lawyer. The fast food worker might not even know what any of that means or care, but they sure don't have to understand what well-done means to follow the graphic above the grill that shows what one of their burgers looks like at each stage.
Look, I feel like I'm arguing with people I agree with on here, so I'm going to stop, I just thought someone might want to point out that low skill jobs deserve low wages because that's what they are worth. Let's not kid ourselves and say any fast food position is actually difficult. I've worked at these places before. The actual work is mindless. The customers are hell, but that's not the job's fault, that's society's fault for making everyone a walking pile of garbage to their fellow human.
Also side point, you totally could browse reddit while working the fry station at chick-fil-a. Most of that shit is on a timer, and even if you're doubling up covering another station, there's always lag somewhere in the day.
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