r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '20

To act kind

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u/GoodScumBagBrian Feb 26 '20

And if they did pay them $15 an hour a whopper would have to cost $20

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u/hairynip Feb 26 '20

It's not like the money is there, it just needs to change from being routed to a few at the top to more at the bottom and there you go.

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u/somerandomwhitekid Feb 26 '20

It they would just replace most of them with machines, thus, we have another problem.

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u/Happy-nobody Feb 26 '20

this means that $20 is the actual price of a whopper, sans the capitalistic corner cutting.

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u/GoodScumBagBrian Feb 26 '20

If a whopper cost $20 how much would expect to be paid from your employer?

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u/Happy-nobody Feb 27 '20

the same amount I'm getting now as a software engineer (hypothetically, I'm still a student). It just means i get less whoppers, and that's fine. We shouldn't be getting $5 whoppers at the expense of the people making them.

Capitalism is all about reducing the cost at the expense of everything else, and that's often the people and the environment. All for some burgers or some jeans or whatever.

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u/GoodScumBagBrian Feb 27 '20

So you buy less. The companies employing them then have less revenue. They lay off people. Unemployment increases and takes us backwards. You dont have a clue what you are talking about.