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I'm glad I read the comments before replying, and I'm struggling to come up with a really good answer. I think it might be a chicken/egg thing. Because of benefits, workers are able to get by with lower wages, and because workers can get by with lower wages, employers are happy to pay less. The more I think about it the more it becomes using wages as a basic minium income. McDonald's makes use of cheap labor because the labor is cheap. The workers want to work. I did fast food in high school and it's terrible. Nobody would do that just because. It's work of last resort. Maybe the question becomes "should labor be cheap?" Does society answer that or employers? Probably both should.