you seemed to be on a pretty good rant but then you wrote: Because a starting Nurse makes about the same as someone working at Chick Fillet.
Then I realized that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Unless Chick-Fillet pays their employees $80,000 + per year starting pay.
Starting Nurse salaries, up until recently, was about 21-23 dollars an hour. So, they were making about 50-60k a year starting out. Chick Fillet pays 19.50 an hour I am told. Ask around about Nurse starting salaries, especially before COVID, and ask why all of them are going travelers now. They have been locked into poor pay for years.