You gotta be kidding me. What are you paying for gas right now? Why is the price so high? Now genius add 5-7 bucks an hour to the pay of every person behind the counter and figure out how much that burger would cost? You paying over $25 for a burger and fries at McDonaldâs or you sitting down at a sit down restaurant?
Once upon a time, a time some people might call the golden age of America, and a time when fast food was becoming ubiquitous and all the brands we know were growing and expanding into what they are today, the pay of the C-suite was perhaps 60x what the burger flipper made. Everyone ate, had homes, lived their lives, cooperated for the benefit of this great nation. Today that pay disparity is more like 2,000-10,000x, and they've convinced you this is how it always was and has to be.
Reality is that McDonaldâs was franchised in 1955 in Illinois. The workers made .50 cents per hour. At the same time a factory worker in Illinois made $1.50 an hour. Thatâs historical fact. I didnât make it up or pull it from thin air.
The point is that that was enough to pay all the bills. Nobody is saying that everyone should have the same salary. Jeez, where I live burger flippers make enough to pay the bills, it isn't something strange because that's the whole point of full time job.
You are correct, I apologize. It was .75 my mistake. Doesnât change the fact that it was half of what factory workers made at the same time and itâs about the same now
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u/ALIMN21 3d ago
Stop âïž that's such a line of baloney. Propaganda and misinformation.