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I absolutely want the DQ person to have a luxurious standard of living. I want them to be flashing Rolex when I walk in. Otherwise what's the fucking point of all this modern society shit we've built?

The usual argument is that those jobs are for teenagers or some shit. Nevermind the fact that teenagers have very limited working hours (can't exactly get that chicken strip basket at lunch on a workday if only teens are working there). The other part of the reasoning is something along the lines of wanting to "motivate" people to move into other fields/jobs. But quite frankly, that's a stupid argument. I wouldn't want to work fast food again even if they were paying me the same money I make now. I would much rather work from home at a computer than deal with shitty people all day in a hot greasy environment.

A "functional" society is not the same thing as a society worth living in or supporting.

Corporatism with wage slaves working 80 hours a week in the most productive period of human history ever is functional, in that people are deliberately kept alive and productive as long as they don't get too uppity.

Sure, this makes the upper class obscenely wealthy at the cost of everyone else, but it does technically work. Lines do go up.

Just not the lines that should go up.

Tell me more about how "below average" people shouldn't afford to live

To be frank, until we reach a point of complete automation (which is a whole other can of worms), jobs like that are explicitly necessary in the world everyone wants to live in, with convenient access to pretty much anything they could want (though obviously at a reasonable wage). Whether that world is worth those jobs isn't a question I think I could do justice addressing, but it's certainly one society needs to determine an answer for.

People still want to eat ice cream cones tho