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[–] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And this is how we get Amazon as the only source of ice cream, and no other social pleasantries to make it cost effective or viable. Everyone here is just virtue signaling, the reality is shit would collapse or at least consolidate to total garbage without low wage jobs. The only solution is UBI, and that can work in societies with extreme logistical excess who also have a culture that wants to help the less fortunate. That's surely not the US.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Amazing how some countries have much more survivable minimum wages, more vacation time, low cost health care, and still have local ice cream shops

    And I'm just talking about Western European nations

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Low-wage jobs are just exploiting desperate people. If the cost of living were more reasonable, it wouldn't be an issue - it doesn't need to be an ice cream shop paying $40 / hr, it needs to be housing and necessities being cost-limited or subsidized. Subsidies for necessities and increased taxes on luxuries would help.

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