Comment on Select a tip

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• NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Everyone should make a living wage. “Oh, but then the price of my McDonald’s cheeseburger will skyrocket!!” Fucking good. If it’s not economical to produce a product without abusing people, that product shouldn’t fucking exist.

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  • archchan@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Oh, but then the price of my McDonald’s cheeseburger will skyrocket!!” Fucking good

    I don’t know why people keep repeating this propaganda. Plenty of countries pay actual wages to their employees, don’t have a tipping, and the prices are still fucking cheaper than America.

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Apologies, I’m not trying to say that that argument is true or has any basis in reality, more so that the argument is completely irrelevant

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    • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      regardless, it doesn’t matter if people are already forced to tip. it just means you’re already paying more but it’s just not included in the sticker price

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They did away with most of their staff and their prices went up over 100% over the last 5 years or so anyway. It’s corporate greed all the way down.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Paying people a living wage would only increase the price by pennies. This is just another “conservative” taking point without any basis in reality.

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    • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What’s stopping McDonald’s from just saying that they need to increase prices by significantly more than that to accommodate the increased wages? Y’know, with lies? It happened with groceries, so I can imagine them seeing this as a good excuse to try to squeeze some more profit out.

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      • Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Still having customers. Groceries are a basic need, but fast food is a luxury most people are already wanting to cut back anyway. I have been a fan of McChickens for a long time due to them being so cheap. They don’t taste amazing, but they got the job done, and were pretty much the cheapest protein I could get without having to make something myself. Even now, without any additional price hikes, they are now $3.50 for a single McChicken in my area. I cannot justify spending that, so I have completely stopped going to McDonalds. Since all other fast food has already done this before McDonalds, I no longer eat any fast food. They’ve all lost the only quality that made them worth while. Anecdotally, most people I know who did eat fast food don’t anymore due to prices. The higher they go, the more customers they will lose.

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      • Zannsolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That already happened

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s no hill to assault, I don’t think anybody except the abusers disagree with you.

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’d be surprised. Many people believe such jobs are meant only for high schoolers and anyone else in that job is too stupid or lazy to do better and therefore don’t deserve better.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wonder how many damn products we use on a daily basis that have been produced with some level of abuse along the production chain. Probably easier to count the ones without abuse, eh.

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree completely, but I still stand by my original point.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh for sure. My comment wasn’t meant to undermine your point. Ideally there would be no abuse whatsoever, that should be the minimum baseline. I stand by your point with you, friend.

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hamburgling used to be a decent profession. Now with such cheap burgers all those skilled workers are left out.

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