Earlier quoted context omitted.
Context which will be blithely ignored.
If being one of the most successful businesses in the world means you can’t pay your employees a living wage, then I think there’s a fundamental problem. That’s also context.
The fundamental problem is that the government keeps mandating policies that drive up the cost of living so that low-skilled and unskilled workers are constantly struggling to keep their head above water, then tries to solve the problem by doubling down on the same failed policies that make it harder for poor and working class people to survive.
Some people don’t make very much when they negotiate because their labor actually isn’t worth very much on the market. Its not worth very much when translated into goods and services. So they work a lot and they don’t have very much and its sad. So people feel bad for them and change the law so they have to get paid more money for the same work. But they aren’t any more productive so there isn’t any more stuff to go around, so when they take their more money to the market, they bid up the prices of goods and end up where they started, sometimes even a bit further behind. But they spent the money at a business that makes a profit. And that profit eventually ends up in the pocket of someone who owns that business. But the working class person is still dependent on that artificially high wage, and the cycle repeats itself.