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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 195 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If your business can't survive without paying slave wages then your business shouldn't survive.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

And they don't get that it's not the regulations demanding fair wages that are the enemy. It's low wages and high costs for their potential customers that is killing their business.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yep.

Plenty of places are thriving with higher minimum wage.

This restaurant crying this hard isnt because they cant afford the wages. Its that owners grew fat on the exploitation, and will now have to slim their excess to pay proper, fair wages.