Fast Food Power over Teenagers in the United States

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because we never finish learning and the more he was going to learn, the more his knowledge was going to open to him untold privilege doors. Hence, I noticed that he seemed to enjoy his life by doing a plenty of dishes a week, throwing the heavy full bags of garbage out and getting home at midnight at very least, that work that was totally exhausting in wintertime with its rough snow and cold. My feeling was hurting, seeing a young man with full energy doing one of the dirtiest works, sub paid for living. finally, I left him at Victor’s Cafe for a new job at whole foods market two years ago.

I had not heard from him anymore since. The reality Barros was living, is a real fact in which people survive the day to day in the United States, especially in the state of New York. A lot of young people moved on it for a betterment, well-being in their life based on what they did hear about that state, and are willing to do any job, very often, paying below the minimum wage because they do not have any choice.

At this time, companies like fast food industries automatically use their doubtful period to hire the youngest among those people due to their naivety. While some refuse to work with such a low salary, another jump on it. Knowing that any investor does want to keep his or her profit as high as possible, most fast foods break the law of salary payment, giving to their employees a weekly money that matches their desires. At this point, that is a human being abuse, his mistreatment by his alter ego. That is why, according to Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher, “man is a wolf to man” from his book, The Leviathan that claims the adventures of the modern political from the primitive state of man, that Hobbes described as a state of “war of all against all” dominated by reports of animosity, until the establishment of the civil society. Unfortunately, I steadily feel that we did not move from that animality period, noticing adolescents mistreatment by fast foods that employ them illegally.

As a whole, Eric Schlosser through his subsection, “Throughput” in Fast Food Nation, reveals that fast food industries target teenagers for employment, and once here, they have to do robotic tasks where there is no place for smart and skilled people. Working is not bad itself, but the way those young employees are treated with any warranty and disrespectfulness is a big issue. To solve the fact of misbehaving of fast food industries, each state supported by the federal government, has to pass the law of 18 of age for working on a limited time at any fast food and making sure the minimum wage paid is respected as stated.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Print.