it’s really not. the most charitable thing you could ascribe to this lady is she’s assumed the wrong priors.

perhaps in her head DQ and similar jobs should be staffed only by teenagers making spending money in a world where adults are so gainfully employed that they have no need to work here.

that is not the world we live in today. it may or may not have existed in the past. it certainly doesn’t under our corporate overlords today. advocating for low wages for these jobs today is advocating for people to struggle, to overcrowd their apartments, and to resort to desperate means to survive.