People who say this are literally saying that they prefer for the workers to all be inexperienced and desperately looking for other jobs. But they somehow also expect good service.
I’m having trouble finding the origin/exact quote, but
“Some people will have to give up champagne if others are going to have clean drinking water”
is something I think about every day.
In the case of these living-wage naysayers, “if we don’t have a desperate struggling underclass, how can I have luxuries that aren’t subsidized by underpaying wageslaves?”
I should dig up that quote from The Forever War, where everyone on some enlightened future planet nation has a basic income, and someone from away asks “but don’t you have people who just relax and do nothing?” and the answer is “once in a while you get someone like that. It’s rare, and generally they’re seen as objects of pity.”
I think it’s a much more realistic and optimistic view of human nature.
