Damn, you turned him into a mute
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donut4ever@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I had a similar argument the other day with some capitalist asshole I know. He kept saying “do you want your fries at McDonald’s to be $30?”. Did the math for him and showed him that if McDonalds gave every single employee of theirs $5 raise, it’ll cost them ~ $250mil, and their profit for the year was $6b. He didn’t say a single word after that.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
donut4ever@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fuck them and fuck their bullshit. They’re just assholes who want everything for themselves.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If you’re gonna “do the math” for someone you should probably do it correctly. I don’t know where you got this figure from. In 2022, McDonald’s employed 200,000 people. There are 2080 working hours (52 weeks * 40 hours) in a year.
200,000 * 2080 * 5 = $2.08 billion
Of course, this is still an affordable amount of money for McDonald’s, but it is significantly more (about 8 times) than what you say it is.
donut4ever@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You’re assuming that all of their employees are full time employees.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 10 months ago
and you’re assuming that all of their employees work 5 hours a week. Which one is more realistic?