Would you mind paying $3 extra per combo if it meant better wages for fast food workers?
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Everything goes up in price In truth your purchasing power is the same but your tax liability went up so you're actually with less now. Just raising the minimum wage doesn't make people better off. In truth it actually makes them worse off.
People need to learn you don't get paid by how much you think you need to live on you get paid by how much value you produce.
Get rid of the minimum wage that will allow negotiation back into the equation. So now if you're working at a high volume fast food place you can negotiate a higher pay versus someone who is working at a low volume one. It's very easy to pay everyone minimum wage when you know all your competition is paying the same with negotiation that is not the case.
This will put people in line more with how much value they're producing.
But really if you want more money you need to produce more value not just cry thinking you deserve more
This is the result of socialism not capitalism. Capitalism would be what I'm saying no government interference the owners making the decisions and the workers agreeing to them.
What we have right now is more closely to socialism government making rules you have to follow or they will send men with guns to take you away and make an example out of you. Who is the one setting the min wage? the government and you're thinking let's have more government will fix the problem caused by government.
Sure, but it's really not necessary. Just look at fast food places outside of North America that pay better without being that much more expensive, like here in Korea. McDonalds prices are pretty much the same. But I voted yes.
1. I don't do fast food. 2. Entry level jobs are not intended to be permanent jobs which provide for self-sufficiency and taking care of a family. If somebody wants to earn a higher wage, they should go learn to do something more than just asking "do you want fries with that?"
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Nope. It's already $9.83 for something like a baconator large combo at Wendy’s. If I went to the store at random on a craving I could make the same thing for like $5.58 at home. If I thought ahead which I generally do and exploited BOGO/Coupons, then it’s like $3.61 in ingredients. I also have to drive to Wendy’s, wait in a drive through or at a counter for probably 10 minutes and then drive back from Wendy’s for maybe a total wasted time of 45 minutes to get a stupid hamburger that takes me 7 minutes to cook at home. Sorry to break it to you, but that isn't fast food... To make that happen I’d probably burn 1 gallon of gas. Even if we ignore automobile depreciation and maintenance costs it’s still $3.39 a gallon thanks to Biden. So bump that $9.83 + your $3 price hike + Biden’s $3.39 gas hike to a total of $16.22 plus 45 minutes of my time wasted (which isn’t cheap) for a fucking hamburger that costs me $3.61 and 7 minutes of my time to make at home… At home with fresh ingredients it will also taste better. You communists don’t really understand economics. Lets just assume my time was worthless (which it’s not). Now tell me if this makes sense to you. Your burger costs me $16.22 to acquire from you. The grocery store charges me $3.61. $16.22-3.61 = $12.61 that you are charging me for 7 minutes work. That is $108.09 per hour for flipping hamburgers. You’re not being very convincing… Large companies can easily exploit economies of scale and purchase ingredients for wholesale prices of 30% to 50% discount over what I as a consumer can purchase ingredients at a retail store. So you guys should easily be able to crank that meal out for like $1.70 in materials and charge someone like me $5 and still have $28.29 cents an hour per burger flipper generated during peak hours. How about you stop doing bad business...
As someone who has worked at McDonald's in the Dallas Fort Worth area, McDonald's workers are already making $12 an hour. Going to $15 per hour will not cause prices to go up.
If you go and look up an inflation chart and include the years minimum wage increased, you would find there is 0 coalition. You will find years that inflation went up after increasing minimum wage, you will also find inflation actually went down after raising minimum wage.
You will also find studies that prices never changed, and you will also find prices did change after the increase in minimum wage.
Moral of the story, there is lack of evidence to say minimum wage will cause a price increase.
We also should raise the minimum wage, the minimum wage is designed to make sure every person that currently has a job is making the bare minimum living wage, no matter the job. So in Dallas Texas, the minimum living wage is $15.21 for an adult with 0 dependents, but the actual minimum wage law is $7.25.
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Anonymous
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Corporations first obligation by law is to maximize profit for their shareholders, so the law would have to be changed to require the higher wage otherwise they can't just do it voluntarily.
But the bigger problem is, if you pay the workers $15, then you have to pay the assistant manager $20 and the manager $25 and everyone above them more and more and more, so a burger would become unaffordable.
Which is why people are paid what they're worth. If you can get 20 employees at $7 then you hire them. If you can't, then you have to go to $8 or $9 or whatever amount it would take to find the employees you need. Surgeons get $300,000 because they can't find any surgeons below that salary. If a hospital wants the best surgeons, they might have to pay $400,000 or more. This supply and demand of employees will never change.
Around 95% of lottery winners spend all their money in 5 years because you can’t be careless with money, $3.00 is a lot of money, you could use that to buy a weeks supply of eggs and during the famine in China, people only ate 1-2 eggs a month. There is no excuse for spending money carelessly, even if your rich.
The other option, you have forgotten is fast food chain who employs those people pays them dignified wages and reduces their own company profits. How about that? Problem is wealth disproportion that destabilizes the economy, not burger flippers who could afford new car from time to time or could but a house after few years of working.
They are already being paid 16-17 an hour here now, and when you order they want you to tip on top of it. Yet they cannot even fill the current open positions, I expect it to hit 18 or 20 by the end of next year.
What is happening is that the price of meat is going up, labor... people are just not going to go to them anymore and they close down. Then all those employees will have to find another job.
People in United States are VERY price conscious. That's why most if not all products are made over seas, where wages are inhuman. If you increase price by $3, a lot of people will lose their jobs, because people will find cheaper places to go to and those are facts, not opinions.
I already hardly ever get fast food because most of it is a ripoff. If they need that much money they should go to college or a trade school and don't expect to buy a house, car, etc. by working an entry level job that just about anybody can do with little to no skills at all. They really are pathetic if they think working fast food is the best they can accomplish in life and refuse to try to better themselves.
Wouldn't it be better to lower the prices? You'd get a lot more customers and end up making more in the long run and be ABLE to pay them more but, these are NOT life's career jobs! They're just stepping stones, something to allow you to make money until you can get the kind of good paying job you want!
I accidentally hit yes. I worked fast food. The amount of working class imbeciles who act like the fkn queen of england and treat fast food workers like garbage is off the charts. Y'all are gross MFs and deserve all the snot and spit on your hamburgers and in your sodas that you get.
I think corporations should make sure employees get what they need. It shouldn’t be our job to pay workers. Unfortunately, this is America, and they want us to stay American dreamers but, I’m just like them a want to be a millionaire, so I know I should help if I can. And I do, admittedly I do so begrudgingly.
Minimum wage here is $20 a cheeseburger (on it's own) at McDonalds is $4.90 ($3.33 USD) a cheeseburger on it's own in the US is $2.19 ($3.19 NZD)... I think $3 extra is a bit dramatic.
Sure, my problem is with taxes and big brother taking a cut off my paycheck to fund their stupid wars and us citizens/residents see nothing In return not fast food workers.
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Anonymous
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No. Fast food work and minimum wage work is not meant to be a career. It is meant for young early adults to get experience and start working. People who make it a career have given up and that shouldn’t be the responsibility of other people to pay them more.
It's already like $11 for a combo meal I remember it used to be $3 for a Big Mac meal at McDonald's $3. Fast food used to be cheap now the price of fast food you might as well go to a fucking restaurant it's the same thing
Nope. It's just enabling dumb people to not strive for a better career. Holy shit, work there part time to survive through college. But graduate from something so you can go on and make more money.
I would mind because it’s already gotten much more expensive. They’re already raising prices to keep up with wages so it’ll be interesting at what point the entire process becomes automated.
I wouldn't mind but the cost of the food doesn't have to go up. It goes up because of the greedy pigs that can't never have enough and like to pay their employees as little as they possibly can.
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Anonymous
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Sure.
I think McDonald's workers work harder than most people at their jobs.
But let McDonalds use automation or illegal immigrants they gonna keep the exact same prices. But then complaint automation causing socialism.
I’m ok with paying more for fast food if it means restaurant food will drop in price
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Anonymous
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McDonald's makes about $19-$23 billion per year and could easily pay their slave labor more, they just don't want to. Your math is totally off. Prices would rise a few cents at most.
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Anonymous
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Yes, because obviously the numbers changed but the value did not. All that happened was arbitrary inflation.
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Anonymous
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Exactly how much profit do the multi national fast food orgs make?
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Anonymous
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No, a flat tax would do more for low wage workers than increasing the minimum wage ever will.
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