Lol without a earned wage, nobody would be able to purchase goods or services, then business would have no profits. People would have no way to make purchases. We the people keep businesses in profit, yet it might not be as profitable as it seems especially when we stop buying low quality junk. Or make trades with neighbors.
I take it you didn't have a surviving family from the 1920s who survived the dust bowl, burried their silver coins, and fought in the war once the stock market crashed. And the problem is that the law hasn't been applied. Tons of cases in the court system could have had laws defined and applied, but that would make the wrong people rich. So when a nobody has a solid case with evidence against a monolithic corporation of course they loose. All except for the lady who got burned by McDonald's coffee... Wonder what she did with all her money...
This would hurt the skilled labor force and everyone trying to afford McDonald's. The issue is that social security recipients don't receive a living wage, and we have a generation of elderly living on 1k a month because husbands worked low 1940 wages/economy that didn't have high pay into the system, yet that generation believed in the government and that social security would take care of them, and lived in fear of the stock market crashing from the depression era crash. It's not a matter of higher minimum wage as it would be a matter of consumer protection and price protection. But we live in a capitalist society, so if a company sets a price people are willing to pay then that effects the economy. If the goods are dangerous or say for instance bad for health, the government has to intervene with laws that protect consumers, but they don't. Super size me proved that they can set changes but quality and ingredients that cause health problems are still being used in consumer goods.
The funny thing is, smoking is a bigger thing in Japan as well, but the Japanese live longer, and their food system is just better in general. Less processed foods, less sugars and preservatives. All that equals less diabetes, autism, and depression. Our food system has failed citizens.
