welfare vs wages

[Danzig]

my point is that industries are here to service people. that we shouldn't demand a service, and then demand that people be paid low wages to support our wants. we can't have it both ways, can we?
i don't buy fast food, but many do. yes, they are typically unskilled. many are also hard-working with mouths to feed. the average age of fast food employees is not 18, they aren't high schoolers. it's closer to 30.
if corps. paid living wages, we wouldn't need the govt to pick up the slack, thus lowering tax demand. poor mcdonals might only make $2 billion in profit instead of $3billion, poor guys.

people want fast food. people have to work in fast food to provide the service. as a requirement, we want them to be poor?
what about the fact that min. wage should be about $10/hour if it kept up with all the wage and living increases?

or is the answer to just keep people stupid and poor? i mean, they deserve it, because we want mcdonalds, right?

will the fast food industry disappear? of course not. should people be paid a decent wage? absolutely.