• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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    11 hours 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.

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      5 hours 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.

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        14 minutes ago

        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.

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      10 hours 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.

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        9 hours 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

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        8 hours 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