It’s so fucking odd when you comment that a fast food or other service industry worker’s pay should be higher and then some clown pipes up with, “Well, do you want your Whopper to be 25 cents more so some burger flipper can afford to rent an apartment?”

Yes, in fact I very much do want that. Because that would be good for the so-called burger flipper, for society and thus even for me. It improves everyone’s lives that people aren’t homeless and hungry, on the edge of poverty or beyond. It’s not even contestable. It’s completely obvious — that is unless you can’t see beyond your own damn nose enough to realize that you are not in fact the only one in the world who matters.