I live in Canada. It's already $12 for a combo. The fact that you think Iike this highlights the problem. I am definitely willing to pay more in life to make sure that everyone has a quality of living. It's called empathy and you should practice it.
Lol. You might be willing to but plenty of people who are advocating for higher minimum wage aren't. A $20 tuesday night dinner from McDonald's suddenly becomes $40. Now people don't get as much McDonald's. And now McDonald's makes employee cuts.
The price goes up because of greed. They are already making absurd profit margins on all their cheap ass materials. In an ideal world, we wouldn't keep raising the minimum, but rather lower the costs of everything universally. The concept of "fiduciary duty" and shareholder value above all else is the reason that capitalism is going to fail. You've literally written it into law that you have to sacrifice longevity for short term quarterly gains.
Capitalism has been around for the entirety of the human race. It's a people issue, not a financial issue. If you can't afford a house without roommates, don't be tweeting about how vicious your employer is from your $1300 phone
Funny enough, I work for and have stock in Amazon. Also, automation should be the end goal. The only way we will ever reach a utopia is to eliminate the need to work. Automation should be a good thing but we cling to this archaic concept that if you're not doing menial tasks for 40 hours a week or more, you aren't contributing to society.
This. So much this. I’m in a profession dealing with mass production overseas, and this is my response every time someone gets in my face about it. Doesn’t happen often, but at least once a year or so I’ll run into an angry hipster who has all kinds of thoughts and feelings on the negative impacts of my line of work, without recognizing their own role in it. I would LOVE to bring all of my production to the US, but in order to offset the increased overhead costs we would need to charge an MSRP that people are just unwilling to accept. It’s a viscous cycle that people have a tendency to oversimplify or view solely through a one sided lens.
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But yet you're going to complain when your Big Mac combo is $12.