Fast-food jobs don’t deserve higher wages: Your Say

Fast-food workers demonstrated last week in hundreds of cities to demand a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

Taking an order, wiping down tables, flipping burgers and emptying garbage cans do not justify $15 per hour. Expecting that kind of money is ridiculous. If you want a better paying job, get educated in a field and better yourself.

— Dempsey Colasacco

I agree a fast-food job is supposed to be an entry-level job. Yet this problem is a symptom of something larger.

Our economic system is based on extracting the most profits while paying as little as possible to one’s workers. Yes, we have companies that take care of their employees, but we have others paying slave wages.

If entry-level employees all the way up to skilled labor make more money, then it’s better for our economy as a whole.

— Damon Walton

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Fast-food jobs will all dry up as automation replaces them. Raising wages would just fast-forward that move.

— Dan Smith

Maybe the debate shouldn’t be about raising the minimum wage a few bucks. Maybe it should be about capping the salaries of executives who make so many times more than their workers.

— Tony Koch

I’m not against people making more money, but what happens to the people like me who have worked their way up to a decent hourly wage? I fear that this will make my pay insignificant.

— Simon Johnston Ortiz