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California Pizza Huts lay off all delivery drivers ahead of minimum wage increas (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Customers must use third-party apps like DoorDash, GrubHub and Uber Eats for food deliveries at the affected chain restaurants.

Give your money to a company that doesn't exploit their workers. Pizza Hut doesn't deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

While this is definitely something people should do, be careful offering "the free market will fix it" as a solution -- it's pushed a solution by neoliberals exactly because it doesn't work.

In this particular case, ethical businesses may have already been pushed out of the market because the only way for them to compete is to either charge more or also rip off their workers and suppliers.

Charging more is obviously the correct solution, but paying more for an ethically produced product isn't a luxury everyone has because they're also working for an insatiably greedy company.

Regulations that force companies to behave ethically is the only way out of this hole, which is why neoliberals fiercely oppose them.