Shit paying jobs have shit turnover, and that hurts the company. Most think of training costs, but there’s more. Employers have to pay a certain amount into the state unemployment fund for a new employee. Flip that employee and the tax starts all over again. New employees strain everything from HR to IT, accounting and payroll.

I agree with your point but employers don’t give a fuck and factor that into the cost of doing business. I work in an industry with a ton of turnover and seasonal work. They could make a whole bunch of employees full time year round, but instead they’ll make them full time seasonal, skip out on paying benefits, fire and rehire them every six months and pay the unemployment penalties. And rather than hire Americans at fair wages, they’ll exploit our immigration system and import rich college students from abroad as part of a “cultural exchange” on J1 visas and work them six days a week for three months for peanuts undercutting local labor and as a feature of that visa they have to house them too, undercutting the housing market for locals as well. J1s can’t complain and can’t organize or they get kicked out of the country.

If you had a cow cranking out milk for you everyday, would you beat the crap out of it, feed it shit food, stress it’s health?

Capitalism: hold my beer…

So what are we to do with these people? Paying them a living wage is the only possible answer. If we don’t, they get food stamps and other government benefits. These giant corporations are taking our tax money so payroll doesn’t come out of their pockets.

This. If these employees are not getting living wage, and since they are evidently living, then that makes them subsidized workforce.