• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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    6 months ago

    Restaurants run on thin margins.

    Not anywhere near as thin as you think. The official numbers are AFTER artificially deflating their profits for tax avoidance reasons.

    he gives up every penny of that to make payroll.

    Ridiculously unrealistic.

    An employee pocketing $20 probably costs his employer $40

    What have you been smoking?? In the real world, workers produce a hell of a lot more value than they’re given in return. That’s how companies profit.

    he’s trying to tighten up, keep those people on the payroll.

    No, he’s trying to recoup the profits lost from paying his workers a living wage by making it less livable for them. He’s protecting his profits, not workers.

    And gets demonized for it.

    And rightly so. He’s acting like the put upon victim when in reality he’s complaining about having to pull other exploitation levers now that one is fixed at a lower setting.