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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.

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PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- donut4ever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You’re assuming that all of their employees are full time employees.
  
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  - PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    and you’re assuming that all of their employees work 5 hours a week. Which one is more realistic?
    
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Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Damn, you turned him into a mute

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- donut4ever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fuck them and fuck their bullshit. They’re just assholes who want everything for themselves.
  
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