For the same reason many dont simply go and get a PHD, for the same reason some people dont play in cover bands that make significantly more money than touring bands, for the same reason McDonalds employees dont sit around for life trying to work their way up etc
Because I dont want to. I dont like doing that, I have actual interests in life(Academic, professional and purely selfish ones) that I feel are worth more to me than the time it takes (yes, it does take TIME) to setup a business. Not to mention, getting the money is often based on factors that are well beyond my control. You cant just walk into a bank and be like “Yo Im gonna go start a business” there are a lot of “random variables”, as well as deterministic ones that determine the success of business, and banks are well aware of this.
My actions in life are not based on greed or the desire for wealth. I only require a certain amount to live, and a little more to prosper, and beyond that I have activities (computer science, friends, family, personal growth etc) that determine my happiness.
Good luck coming up with an objective measurement for how hard someone works. Even economists gave up on that shit, and theyre the biggest bullshitters in Academia.
I don’t think you can seriously deny that this country and many others were built on the backs of the vanquished. That’s just a part of it too. Now of course the “rags to riches” and “bootstraps” is part of it, but to say that alone is how America got to where it was is being a little too unrealistic. Also many of our things we take for granted (cheap electronics, cheap oil, etc) is made possible on the backs of others as well.
I run an Arby’s but I still make jokes about fast food. Sounds more lik 90% of SRK is hella rich and well off and the 1%, based on the posts in this thread
pro-tip: want your QSR job to not suck? Just get into management. It’s hella easy. Take extra shifts, be on time, do the job at least the bare minimum ability that they ask of you. In 3-6 months you WILL get promoted. Then you can sit in an office posting on SRK on your smartphone or computer if they have one/you brought it from home
why do people say they care about service in QSRs when thats a blatant lie.
we all know you only go there for one reason: quick food. cause if the food is coming slow but the people are nice yall dont GAF. only when its up quick and youre in a good mood you pretend to care about ‘service’ lol fuck outta here, if you wanted service youd just go to a real restaurant
but yeah, most managers higher up really value intelligent employees. if you dont get promotions you will at least get raises and more hours. its the dumbfucks who get the shit end. probably why they end up crying that min wage should be 15 bucks lol. shit I was making 15 bucks like a year and a half ago
Question: why is it so absurd that fast food workers might make a $15 wage, when several decades ago they were making what would be a $15 wage today? Has our sense of resistance really become that crushed, that cowed into submission?
Question: why are so many people getting butthurt about the idea of making less money than a McDonalds employee, yet refusing to see the incredibly obvious implication–that if they’re making less than a McDonalds wage from the 1960s, maybe, just maybe, they’re also getting well and truly screwed? And why are they not realizing that their argument boils down to “I’m getting well and truly screwed, but I’m happy about it as long as I’m not getting screwed as much as those guys with a shittier job than me”? Is that not the mentality of a slave?
Question: why is everybody taking shots at the most vulnerable among us, while nobody takes at least an equal shot at the wealthy big business owners who have steadfastly refused to keep wages apace with inflation? Never forget that these people are all the while raking in even more money hand-over-fist than they ever have. If the economy is truly so terrible, shouldn’t everybody be tightening their belts, rather than just the guys at the bottom of the pile?
Question: why is everybody exaggerating the amount by which the price of food would have to go up in order to accomplish this wage hike? Do people really not realize just how many hamburgers McDonalds sells on any given day? Or is this argument just a fig leaf for the aforementioned “I’m getting severely screwed, but I’m happy as long as I’m not getting screwed as much as a fast food worker” argument?
Question: why do so few people realize that we no longer live in a society of plentiful middle-class jobs that used to keep working adults out of McDonalds? Those jobs are dwindling more and more everyday, mainly as a result of outsourcing, downsizing, and generally inveterate money-hoarding on the part of the guys at the top of a very long economic food chain. You want these fast food strikers to just get another job? I’m sure they would like to, but let’s not act like these jobs are just the slightly higher-hanging fruit.? It’s not the 1970s anymore, when any young schmuck could walk out of high school and straight into a car company job that can support a family, buy a vehicle, finance a house, etc. That world doesn’t exist anymore.
