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Comment on California Loses Nearly 10,000 Fast-Food Jobs After $20 Minimum Wage Signed Last Fall

BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The article is talking about franchise owners.

……how do you think corporate makes its money if not for the franchises? You yourself even mentioned the investment required by the corporation to open a franchise. That goes to the expenses of the physical stores and training staff but ALSO goes to the corporation for licensing fees. They also set requirements that franchise owners have to pay to meet.

So why are you going on about some mythical executive is beyond me.

They run the company, it’s important to scrutinize their actions.

You’re bad at this.

A living wage = wage high enough to maintain a normal standard of living.

If you can’t even pay rent on a minimum wage job (let alone food or other expenses) then you’re not making a living wage.

What do YOU think it means?

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Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I love this narritave that people working in fast food for low wages are joyfully living their best life making big macs and singing gospel songs in 4 part harmony and on their day off they swing by the community food bank and everything is great - untill the evil Liberal McSocialist takes their job away with an evil laugh Mwahahaha! and the poor franchise owner loses everything he has to wear a barrel instead of clothes and smoke Honduran cigars instead of Dominican Oh such folly! Such Tribulation! Alas Babylon!

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- BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This entire thread is just that guy demonstrating over and over how much he doesn’t understand the suffering of those below him on the economic scale and it’s SO OBVIOUS
  
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- wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Helps if you had read the articles where the woman says she was happy with her job and pay. She’s not upset because she doesn’t have a job or pay. She won’t be able to pay her bills. I get you feel self important to tell the plebes they don’t need jobs since but I can empathize with their plight.
  
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  - Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I missed that one. Did you post a link to it? I don’t see any other links in this thread. I admire your concern for the people who lost their jobs and I share that concern. You should never doubt that the plight of the proletariat is a fundamental concern at the heart of the revolutionary’s critique of capitalist exploitation.
    
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    wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    franchiseherald.com/…/fosters-freeze-closes-locat…
    
    Here is another article on it
    
    Navarro expressed that she and her former colleagues preferred to keep their old wages instead of losing their jobs altogether. “From what I’ve heard from my employees, we all would have chosen to stay at our previous wage because now we’re unemployed,” she told Fox Business.
    
    “Small businesses can’t handle a more than 120% increase in the minimum wage over the last decade. We’re all poorer than we were ten years ago, which shows that raising the minimum wage isn’t helping,” he commented to the media.
    
    The issue is that wages should have been increased more gradually over time and not rapidly when inflation was the highest and right after a pandemic. That is just dumb. People will only pay so much for fast food and that price is already exceeded.
    
    foxbusiness.com/…/mcdonalds-25-deal-viral-users-b…
    
    Yet the left claims they want to be more like Denmark but then balk when they find out Denmark doesn’t have a minimum wage.
    
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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

owners. ……how do you think corporate makes its money if not for the franchises

How to say you don’t understand a franchise without actually saying it. Corporate has zero to do with this.

A living wage = wage high enough to maintain a normal standard of living.

They had that. So now you can stop babbling about a living wage.

f you can’t even pay rent on a minimum wage job (let alone food or other expenses) then you’re not making a living wage

They were paying all their expenses. Can you cite where a laid off employee says otherwise? Only a liberal would think 0 is better than making a livable wage which they were doing

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- BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re seriously going to die on the “corporate has nothing to do with the costs they impose on the franchisee” hill?
  
  Under $20/hour, ESPECIALLY in a state with as high of a COL as California is NOT a living wage. Try it for a month. You wouldn’t even be able to cover the average rent. You’re just proving even harder how out of touch you are as a 5%-er.
  
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