The minimum wage cooks of a successful restaurant refuse to join the wait staff in a strike to improve wages. The cooks feel they are being paid well enough, even though the restaurant owner made $2 million in profit last year. This situation would exemplify which of Karl Marx's concepts
False consciousness is a way of thinking that keeps one from recognizing oppression, inequality, or exploration in their situation(s) . This is why the minimum wage cooks thought they were getting paid enough.
