Would you pay $20 for a Big Mac? …though they’ll probably automate the cooking and cashier positions, so they don’t have to pay an employee what I make as a robotics technician.
Are you ignorant or what? There’s proof worldwide that paying your workers decent wages doesn’t cost more. Also, imagine what would happen if workers actually had money to spend… Guess where they’d spend.
No, I wouldn’t. That’s why they won’t price it at $20. They’re gonna have to figure something else out or just have a complete negative loss in the state. You can try to price gouge people but they’ll likely just go somewhere else. This is some bs thinking through and through
So it turns out that you are underpaid just like these McDonald’s employees. Unless by robotics technician you mean something like a roomba repairman. Maybe support your fellow laborers when they are fighting for fair wages. It shouldn’t be a competition.
Thurkeau@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Would you pay $20 for a Big Mac? …though they’ll probably automate the cooking and cashier positions, so they don’t have to pay an employee what I make as a robotics technician.
Player2@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Have we seen any of that happen in the places the company already operates that enforce a decent wage?
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No. No, we have not. All these clowns get their economics lessons from assholes and blowhards on MultiMillionaire Fascist Talk Radio
Lightsong@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are you ignorant or what? There’s proof worldwide that paying your workers decent wages doesn’t cost more. Also, imagine what would happen if workers actually had money to spend… Guess where they’d spend.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Always this bullshit response from so-called fReE mArKeT experts
They never tire of being proven dead wrong over and over and over and over…
Jas91a@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think if they could have done that (automate the cooking and cashier) to save paying $3 wages they would have.
APassenger@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How much of the overall cost do you think is labor? Because your dollar figure implies you’ve overestimated by plenty.
Assuming USD.
kwking13@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No, I wouldn’t. That’s why they won’t price it at $20. They’re gonna have to figure something else out or just have a complete negative loss in the state. You can try to price gouge people but they’ll likely just go somewhere else. This is some bs thinking through and through
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
So it turns out that you are underpaid just like these McDonald’s employees. Unless by robotics technician you mean something like a roomba repairman. Maybe support your fellow laborers when they are fighting for fair wages. It shouldn’t be a competition.
mwguy@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Good.