And when the people you rely on to "drop potatoes into hot oil and hand them to someone in a car" on your way to work, during lunch, and coming home from work can no longer to afford said potatoes that you're referencing from their job let alone healthy groceries, rent, or even putting money aside from retirement now that pensions are all but dead, how much are you going to complain when those windows are no longer staffed and your taxes increase for them to sit at home and do nothing (oh and the home is likely going to be paid for by your tax dollars and nicer than yours because this mindset created this society)?
Oh and this cycle is kinda wild in that those businesses that employee these 'lower citizens' also pay substantial taxes to your local, state, and federal government and there's lots of hands out waiting for those tax dollars to come in too. I'm SURE that your local schools, municipalities, state, and federal government will adjust to that loss of tax revenue by cutting their expenses (despite the surge in dependents) and by no means raise your payroll and estate taxes any higher than they currently are right?
You were sold a bill of goods somewhere over the decades that you were better than these 'low skill, low income' workers and believe that was their fault while also expecting those services to continue uninterrupted. You likely even came from a generation that when you visited your parents you knew where the gas station worker, butcher, seamstress, whatever lived but bought so far into the propaganda that was fed 24/7 for decades (and who could blame you) you still believe this is normal, this is sustainable, and these service workers are beneath you and deserve to live in poverty.
Think about that one for a minute and tell me that the counterpoint isn't counterproductive to your wallet and providing for your own loved ones or demonstrates a significant decline in our American society that's being swept under the proverbial rug. But if you want to stick to your guns, I'm sure that the current fast food workers can either starve to death or die of exposure and that'll be just peachy because we'll have a fresh crop of 'undesirable' HS graduates lining up to take their place right?
-LD