They did all that because that was what was most economically affordable and possible at the time, it costs more to learn how to make clothes and the materials than it does to buy pre-made clothes now, the American City has been fundamentally altered around the car with a severe lack of affordable public transportation that would be available in Roosevelt’s day, the national sport was baseball and people went to see games locally.
They didn’t take Vacations because Civilian Airliners were only a decade or two old.
Oh and the whole period you’re referring to, the one when Roosevelt made that speech?
That was the Great Depression, one of the worst times economically for the common person in US modern history, bread lines around the block to feed themselves, of course they weren’t doing much they were in a recession so bad everyone refers back to it as hyperbole for how bad a recession could be.
The minimum wage comes into the US in 1938, economic recovery from the depression doesn’t start until 1940 which again should show that having a minimum wage as a living wage isn’t something that’ll tank the economy because it literally at minimum didn’t keep the US in the Great Depression and at best is the reason the US was uplifted from it.
Why have other countries outside the USA paid fast food workers better and this hasnt been a problem? Why does pay for normal staff increase prices but demonstrably ever increasing executive pay does not?
Because fast food restaurants have only ever existed in the US and we haven't had the data for what the cost difference between the US and those foreign country's (where they were paid significantly higher wages) menu items for decades at this point. Taking McDonalds for example the difference in a Big Mac price amounted to like a dollar more in those countries, of course that's from pre-Covid before greedflation kicked in and they realized they could just keep charging more and more. Also the minimum wage was always meant to be a living wage when it was conceived, and not just a wage you could subsist on but a solid wage.
Labor is labor, sure people should be paid more for a more technically challenging position, but if a job exists people should be adequately compensated for doing it. Not this bullshit where people work full time and still need to be on food stamps and shit.
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u/TheKuraning 10d ago
Fuve guys.... "fast" food? 🤨