• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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    2 months ago

    Everyone working a job should be making a living wage. “Oh, but then the price of my McDonald’s cheeseburger will skyrocket!!” Fucking good. If it’s not economical to produce a product without abusing people, that product shouldn’t exist. Period. I will die on this hill.

    • @archchan@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      “Oh, but then the price of my McDonald’s cheeseburger will skyrocket!!” Fucking good

      I don’t know why people keep repeating this propaganda. Plenty of countries pay actual wages to their employees, don’t have tipping, and the prices are still fucking cheaper than America.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        142 months ago

        Apologies, I’m not trying to say that that argument is true or has any basis in reality, more so that the argument is completely irrelevant

      • @dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
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        42 months ago

        regardless, it doesn’t matter if people are already forced to tip. it just means you’re already paying more but it’s just not included in the sticker price

    • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      152 months ago

      They did away with most of their staff and their prices went up over 100% over the last 5 years or so anyway. It’s corporate greed all the way down.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      There’s no hill to assault, I don’t think anybody except the abusers (and the profiteers) disagree with you.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        You’d be surprised. In this specific example, many people believe such jobs are meant only for high schoolers and anyone else in that job is too stupid or lazy to do better and therefore don’t deserve better.

    • Diplomjodler
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      2 months ago

      Paying people a living wage would only increase the price by pennies. This is just another “conservative” talking point without any basis in reality.

      • @Leg@sh.itjust.works
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        12 months ago

        What’s stopping McDonald’s from just saying that they need to increase prices by significantly more than that to accommodate the increased wages? Y’know, with lies? It happened with groceries, so I can imagine them seeing this as a good excuse to try to squeeze some more profit out.

    • Victor
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      32 months ago

      I wonder how many damn products we use on a daily basis that have been produced with some level of abuse along the production chain. Probably easier to count the ones without abuse, eh.