&gt; And yet, if we did that to such an extent that most people couldn&#x27;t work those jobs with those policies, would not society be better off as a whole?<p>Your attitude isn&#x27;t just out of touch with reality, it&#x27;s somewhere between &#x27;callous and unsympathetic&#x27; and &#x27;sociopathic.&#x27;<p>Roughly 95% of the people who work in crappy low-wage jobs like fast food or call centers <i>already</i> hate their jobs.  They <i>already</i> hate what their employers tell them they have to do.  They aren&#x27;t there because they love cold calling strangers or asking you to upgrade your meal by 1000 calories, they&#x27;re there because they need a paycheck and have little other alternative.<p>I can only speak from personal experience regarding call centers, but I imagine fast food isn&#x27;t very different.  Most people absolutely do get out of those jobs as fast as they can.  In the call center I worked at, average tenure was 6 months if not less (that&#x27;s exactly how long I lasted, FWIW).  And you know what?  Every time a person walks out the door, someone else walks in to take their place, because the world has no shortage of desperate people.<p>Taking the stance of &#x27;we should torture these people as much as possible because we don&#x27;t have access to their employers&#x27; is bad enough, but to smugly claim that it&#x27;s really for their own good and the good of society is frankly disturbing.