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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: opportunities, women
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 19:06:20 EDT
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> Another reason why McDonald slaves get paid so little is that most of
> them are too young to receive minimum wages (what an understatement!
> McDoonad's fortune is based on the exploitation of child labor).  One
> would hope that EPFWEQ would contain provisions to end discrimination
> based on age.  McDonald and gang are certainly rich enough to be able
> to pay decent wages or at least minimum wages.

Of course, whether they're willing to or not is another story.  They may
respond by cutting the number of jobs, hardly a socially-desirable goal.
Minimum wage *hurts* people like high-school students, since it means
that there are fewer jobs for them.  Being hired at a pittance is better
than not being hired at all.  Of course, they're generally too young to
vote, so who cares?  :-[

I haven't seen the McDonalds' balance sheets, but I would guess that most
of their stores can't afford to pay their slaves garbageman wages.  (Better
wages than they now pay, maybe.  Unionized-garbagemen wages, no.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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