Stop defending exploitation
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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These dipshits realize fast food prices are still gradually going up anyway right?
What a great way of coming right out and saying that you believe certain people should just be poor
Yes, it must be the workers trying to make liveable wages increasing prices than the CEOS making hand over fist in salaries and bonuses.
If you buy that, I have a broke down resort in Palm Beach for 1.5 billion dollars to sell you.
It’s actually amazing, and frightening in equal measure, how big businesses in America have gotten it into the heads of their society that it’s a bad thing if an employee of a fast food restaurant actually earns a wage they can live off, it borders on Orwelian how they have such a stranglehold on the public consciousness.
Around here, most McDonalds start at $13. A cheeseburger is like, $2.
Years ago the racist shitbag that founded Papa Johns Pizza said he wouldn’t give his employees health insurance because it would add too much to the price of pizzas.
When asked how much it would add to their costs…they said approximately 18 cents.
$17.50 I believe here and they’ve never been busier
In Netherlands:
– salary is 17usd/h (taken from mcdonalds website)
– BigMac is about 6 usd.
So 1h of work will get you aprox 2.8 BigMacs.
In Florida:
– salary is about 11.72usd/h (according to talent.com)
– BigMac is about 4.5 usd
So 1h of work will get you aprox 2.6 BigMacs.
Somehow this person is cool with the CEO making 100x more per hour.
Yeah 15 an hour is horseshit anyways min wage here is like 18 and it still should be higher and literally fuck anyone who says different lol
The flaw is expecting American McDonald managers to react the same way that Denmark’s did
What’s really telling is companies said if we increase wages we’ll have to raise prices, lay off workers, and go to automated kiosks. So they didn’t raise wages but raised prices anyway, still laid off workers, and now I have to deal with kiosks.
The folks who complain about minimum wage don’t grasp the whole picture. They don’t realize if someone doesn’t make enough they have to use support services or possibly turn to crime.
It is in our best interest to make sure all can thrive.
Minimum wage in Idaho is $7.25 per hour. (That’s the Federal mandate. They would pay you less if they could.)
If you work full time (most Taco Bell employees don’t), you make about $1160 per month. A one-bedroom apartment is about $1300. Did you want utilities with that? How about food? Hope you weren’t planning on transportation or healthcare or (lol) savings!
Saying that one person’s full-time labor should not meet their basic living needs is disgusting.
Especially because you don’t want to pay a nickel more for your Crunchwrap Supreme®.
PS: the CEO was making a paltry $5M last time I checked, and the parent company revenue was over $7B. They’re not in danger of going under because the mean old Fed thinks full time labor should be enough to live on.
PPS: anyone who thinks fast food jobs are supposed to be part-time summer work for teenagers is living in fantasyland.
We blame immigrants or the low income earners but when will we start blaming and holding accountable these greedy corporations for price gouging us. They are driving prices and inflation year after year because we all still pay. There’s no consequences so obviously they have no incentive to offer a reasonable price. The corporations are obligated to increase shareholder value. They don’t care about the consumer or the minimum wage employees.
Imagine going through life spending your energy on anything that keeps poor people poor…..
Investors demand more profits ?
Congrats. Your Taco Bell order just became sit down restaurant price.
I travel to Sweden every year and usually land in Copenhagen
I always check prices as they both pay their employees $17-$20 hr at least
The prices are lower then here where minimum wage is still less then $8 but the owners don’t need four new cars and two or three houses
Even though most do have a summer cabin
I’m confident prices would raise much more, as corporate would use it as excuse to increase their margin without being roasted by public opinion.
Ironic considering your exploiting this for your own gain.
Minimum wage hasn’t changed, yet Taco Bell still achieved sit down restaurant prices.
Almost like labour cost has nothing to do with it.
Taco Bell is already sit down price here – may as well pay the employees
Well, you got me there
This must be old. The fast food places near my house are all more expensive than the sit down restaurants now. I would also imagine the employees at those actual restaurants make more than the fast food employees, which should result in higher prices according to these economic geniuses.
Anyone named Hannah is a moron
[“in many cases you’ll actually pay less for a big mac in denmark than in the united states”](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-cost-denmark/)
Note the question in the article is “Are big macs much more expensive in denmark” which they rated ‘false’
So, shit pay for the workers, and costs the same or more because corporate greed.
Like everything else.
Following her logic, I guess ideally the restaurant workers should just work for free, that way we can get the cheapest meals possible!
Remember when Papa John said if his employees got healthcare the price of pizza would have to go up 50¢ and everyone was like, “Ok?”
Is Hanna a real person? 1/3 of people posting online aren’t even people. That said, the mentality of people that think only of themselves and hate basically everyone else is a real one.
I have to ask. Is this Missouri they’re referring to? Because we just voted for the $15 raise in January and all I ever hear are people complaining about $13 milk gallons incoming
I’ve noticed something, as I always seem to before all of you. Notice these profile pics that can’t be easily fed into an “is it AI” engine. I am seeing lots of them. Making a weird face, extra makeup, something covering part of their face, etc.
Can confirm. Ate at McDonald’s in Germany. It was properly staffed. The people were friendly and seemed happy. My burger didn’t look like someone hit it with a mallet after wrapping it up. The prices were only slightly higher than here in the US, adjusting for exchange rate.
It is literally more expensive to eat fast food than to eat at a sit down restaurant. Compare any fast food burger to a lunch special at Chilis
Not that it means she can’t have an opinion, but I always listen to economics discussions from a person doing a cosplay of a sex doll.
Believing memes, show us all how intelligent you are!
The reply leaves out a whole lot of information. What was the min wage and Big Mac price before?
Lmao – rich coming from social welfare la la land Denmark
Ask anyone you know who has career in finance VS the news….
Why stop at 20$ why not 100$ an hour
Also Epstein friends control all money printing and who gets it for free while you work for it
It’s not just exploitation, there is massive corruption in the U.S.
And the commercials will be the best song alongs when you’re in your self driving car.
And in France around forty years ago they jacked up minimum wages, and all that happened was lower incomes had decent quality of life for a while till inflation caught up.