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I really wish we wouldn’t treat fast food as work that should be at the bottom of the pay scale. If you’ve ever worked fast food, you know that it’s hard work. Like ok, Steve, you think it’s easy? You’re now running the burger station through a lunch rush. Oh, and a bus just pulled in.
Jobs don't pay based on how hard they are or how hard you work. It's a combination of how much "value" you bring and how difficult you are to replace. These so called "low skill" jobs pay so little because each individual worker doesn't provide much value (it's all economies of scale) and they are relatively easy to replace (the vast majority of people could be proficient enough in a week or two).
I've worked at Burger King and McDonald's. It's pretty easy. Compared to all the jobs I've ever had, those two were two of the easiest.
Easiest job I worked was at an amazon warehouse fastfood was way harder than that. Amazon was like scan the thing put in pile, or unload truck, or sort shit, or teach people to do any of the above. At least didn't have to deal with any customers