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No. It can and does work. You are repeating corporate propaganda. Lots and lots of people buy burgers and they can and should pay enough to support the laborers who make them... You just have a defacto FAITH in the system of exploitation. It's an anti human perspective. There is plenty for everyone if human beings are more important to you than profits or markets etc. less profit at the very top is a requirement for the lowest to have enough. Only a cruel psychopathic worldview doesn't want the least to have enough. No company should exist if it cannot provide a bare minimum to its workers.That's just lazy thinking. You can't tell people what to buy and not buy. You can't tell them to only buy things they need. You can't tell them that they need to continue to eat at a fast food restaurant if they don't want to pay the extra prices.
I never said it's the only way things can work but once you start thinking about how capitalism works, then you realize that it's kind of like the dating world. Some people are luckier than others, some work harder than others and get what they want. Some are unlucky and some are lazy and wind up with awful and unattractive spouses. There's no guarantee that you can live a happy life but you can certainly up your odds by putting in the work.
If the rules were as simple as you guys are making them out to be, everything would be fixed by now. Minimum wage hikes will never give minimum wage earners anything other than a temporary influx of a small amount of extra cash that will wind up being swallowed up by the market in short order.
Your worldview does require exploitation of others. It's an impoverished anti human worldview.
You got to start from first principles and first principles is every human being who works should have a basic dignity of life.