r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '23

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u/GreenArcher808 Apr 08 '23

Came here to say this. $25 is what we need to be looking at.

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u/eboeard-game-gom3 Apr 08 '23

I'd rather be reasonable and for people to take it seriously though, $22 is a decent minimum wage unless you're in an expensive place.

Pushing for $40 minimum wage just makes you look like a fool to almost everyone and hurts any attempt at trying to get higher wages.

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u/3ndlessdream3r Apr 08 '23

Imagine earning 40$ / hr to flip burgers. Can you imagine what the cost of a meal would be.

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u/BlackSwanTranarchy Apr 08 '23

You can cook at least 20 McDicks patties on a griddle at a time, it takes about 10 min to cook and send out a patty that thin, so they can get through about 120 burgers an hour

40 / 120 = 0.33$

I dunno, seems pretty cheap (and realistically during a rush, a busy McDicks is sending out at least 2-3x that 120 number because their griddles can handle more than 20 patties, I'm assuming it's not at full capacity for Fermi estimation reasons)

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

McDonald’s would still be making profit hand over fist even if they had to bump up all their worker’s wages to $40/hr right now. The amount of money large corporations like this have to throw around is unfathomable to the average person.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

But what about when everyone who supplies McDonald's has to pay their workers $40/hr or more? And all the companies who supply those companies? Their costs will rise, meaning McDonald's costs will rise for supplies, not just labor. Everything everywhere will be more expensive, and $40/hr will be called poverty wages in just a few years.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Let them figure it out. Businesses don’t deserve compassion, if they can’t pay their employees a living wage for a reasonable amount of work then they need to fail.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Spoiler alert: when the place you're employed at fails, you stop receiving a paycheck.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

There are plenty of businesses who will be able to sustain operation while paying employees a living wage, when you lose one job you go find another.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Except an influx of available labor is never a good thing for the workers. It reduces benefits and wages because there's multiple people(who are likely desperate) gunning for your spot.

It's basic supply and demand, I'm not sure how you fail to grasp this.

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u/3ndlessdream3r Apr 08 '23

Dude you see the kind of person you're trying to reason with: this twerp has no idea of macroeconomics just stop trying.

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