> In reality, for decades saying "take this job and shove it" to McDonald's or Burger King has become increasingly hard thanks to the stagnant wages, a lack of benefits, non-compete clauses, and long stretches of economic recession that make it very difficult for workers to build up the kind of savings or emergency fund needed to quit without going through serious financial distress.
fast food jobs are encumbered with non competes? ahem I have doubts there because no one I know in those jobs has mentioned it. It may well happen elsewhere.
they also talk to the "executive director of the Worker's Institute at Cornell University", who I'm sure is so much more in touch with the plight of the fast food / dollar store worker, than, you know, those people that quit; which the story was supposedly about, right?
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/07/15/entrepreneurial-energy-fun...
lots of people are finding that the job market has been stripped of the things that used to make it better than the "irregular / self employed" scratch living that used to feature more largely in rural areas. "gig work" helps too.