If you are a highly paid tech worker, don't fool yourself into believing that IF THEY COULD tech companies wouldn't pay you minimum wage. \1
They absolutely would pay you $7.25 an hour in a heartbeat if they thought they could.
Your skills are NOT more valuable to the company than low paid support staff. It is just harder to find a replacement if you quit. \2
But without the low paid support staff essentially all large tech companies would grind to a complete halt in days to weeks and go bankrupt within months. \3
And it isn’t that paying the support staff like the highly paid tech workers would really impact the companies bottom lines. It absolutely wouldn’t.
They pay low wages to support staff for one reason: BECAUSE THEY CAN.
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Addendum: I include cleaning, security, food service, and building maintenance staff under support staff
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