Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase

aramis87@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Paying an employee minimum wages just means you’d pay them less if it was legal.

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup. The bare minimum because the law says you must.

    These fuckers would all keep slaves if it wasn’t illegal. It’s not the ethical and moral disgrace of slave owning that stops them, but the legal aspect of it.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so? that’s why laws exist, right?

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it is indicating the employers attitude towards their workers

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say that the CEO of McDonald’s is aware of that.

  The rationale here is that if they get minimum wage increasesed, they can raise their workers wages without the reality or perception that they’re ceding a fiduciary advantage to their competitors.

  It’s a reality that needs to be addressed. Some major corp had to eventually acknowledge it. Everyone knew it, nobody wanted to be the first to say it.

  The first step is admitting there is a problem. The gravity of even this first step, and the fact that it’s from Trump’s fucking gold standard for food and American business, is massive.

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, but you don’t get to keep your job in publicly traded companies if you are hitting the delusional talking points of people bent on burning society and country down so they can get a 9th yacht.

  It’s Fordism, the dude literally realizing his employees can’t even eat there. Since most of his employees are on government assistance, it’s true corporate welfare while he pretends he can’t change things.

  I hope Boston Dynamics is working on a robot that can operate a guillotine; we have an industrial scale of resetting to get through.

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• Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ummm… Isn’t this already true of McDonald’s? They aren’t at $18 an hour everywhere, but I believe the average is $15+ for starting salaries. I would guess they’ve hired anyone for anything successfully at minimum wage.

  This isn’t generosity; several market forces push fast food in this direction. In fact, it makes a lot of sense for this CEO to lobby for it. It will cost competition more than it will cost them.

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I took a job at McDonald’s for a bit a few years ago. (Living in a small town in Oklahoma when my car broke down and all I could reasonably walk to was Walmart and McDonald’s) They didn’t start everyone at minimum wage. They started everyone at $8.00/hr. 😞

    I did eventually get hired at the Walmart (and eventually move to civilization) at $14/hr.

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• yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The McDonalds CEO has no control on the hourly wages set by franchisees outside of a general “pay more.” The McDonalds corporate controls a very small portion of actual restaurants, they mostly just lease land.

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