> the problem is young people are too smart to take them up on their pitiful 700 yen per hour offers,
There's a large population of chinese students in Japan who are very happy to work at such rates.
There's a large population of chinese students in Japan who are very happy to work at such rates.
> which in Tokyo barely cover your transport and lunch costs
Is this another of those things where paying a person an non-livable wage is going to be construed as a Good Thing™? How about we raise the prices so the people serving us the food can, you know, live?
If the 5 who would be unemployed have some superior alternative, why aren't they doing it already? Or would you say they should be forcibly unemployed to combat their laziness in looking for better work (which you apparently think exists)?
Or, far more likely, the CEO needs to make a few million less so the people who operate his business can EAT.
Whose life is better if the business doesn't exist?
And from this we then go the side hustles and the app workers and all the rest of the stuff that let us pretend someone working 120 hours a week for pennies is "doing good."
If this were true, why would people in bad jobs continue to show up for work?
Okay, you've identified that shifting people from precarious existence to outright starvation and homelessness will make others more aware of their plight. How will that help, exactly? Are they going to somehow turn around public opinion on the welfare state? Start a Communist Revolution? Because it seems like they will just be worse off, and we will be more aware, and nothing else will happen.