Yay! The humanity!
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25 for a double burger. Lesser burgers are not the high. Looks like it's 10 per patty, and 5 for cheese. I think I'll notice Wendy's "dynamic prices that totally doesn't count as surge pricing, stop saying it"
In n Out is boring meat sandwiches.
People are assholes
This is an extremely small price to pay for someone being able to live.
I'll happily spend an extra nickel for a shake if it means someone can house and clothe themselves, or a quarter for a burger for the same.
I make decent money (not extravagant, but I'm not exactly struggling at minimum wage), and this is a pittance for what they are getting out of it.
But conservatives, or more accurately, aggressively capitalist people, only see that their prices are going up. They're looking at "how does this affect me " with no consideration of helping their fellow citizen. It only affects them by costing them more for a burger.
Pathetic. Devoid of any empathy.
In-N-Out raised their prices post-pandemic without workers getting an increase in pay. The cause and effect here is not credible.
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This is End Wokeness so I suppose that's supposed to be a gotcha? Reminds me of when Fox and CNN were trying to bash Sanders in 2016 but they just kept making him look cooler.
News drone: So what, will you subsidize the health insurance industry then?
Sanders: WE'RE GONNA ELIMINATE THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY. EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY ON EARTH HAS....
News drone: Bernie Sanders hates jobs. Next up, should your cat be trained with a firearm? Stay tuned to find out.
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5% increase 🤯!!1!
bad angle shot - tons of businesses didn't change their wage at all and had prices go up a lot more than this. how was that also the fault of nebulous 'wokeness'?
Exactly. This is just a greedy corp seeing the minimum wage increase as an opportunity to jack up the prices.
There is no way the increase in wages justifies such a pricing increase, with the volume they sell.
They saw an opportunity to abuse everyone and make the workers bear the responsibility for it, and so they rushed to it faster than matt gaetz rushes towards minors...
That's the reason why UBI and raising the minimum wage isn't a permanent solution for the working class though. They are good and provide some relief certainly, but in the end the corporations will exploit even harder, raise prices causing inflation that makes the raises unimportant, and use all that as a debate point to show that giving back to the workers leads to price raises.
Workers should still fight for raises, benefits and better contracts, but the end goal should be ending the system that gives the owners of capital all the power in the world.
This assumes the markets lack competition.
Yep, UBI trials worked exactly because they were trials. It was just for a part of the population, so "adjusting the prices" relatively to it would have meant that the majority of the customers would have probably consumed less.
But, make it a predictable, widespread action, and the biggest corporations will immediately find a way to funnel that "extra money" straight in their pockets. Probably while being so aggressive at it that it will have the direct opposed effect to the desired one: making the 99% of people poorer.
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They say this as though restaurants weren't just raising prices anyways.
A double double was $5.30 in January 2024. Minimum wage was $16.
A double double was apparently $5.65 in March of 2024. Minimum wage was $16.
Its almost as if they just raise prices cause the executive suite wants new endangered animal leather underwear.
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CA is a state that really tries to shake the scummy republicans out of its politics and sometimes they win. GGCA.
I just wish they would shake the scummy Democrats out too.
There is a significant subset of our population that would gladly support slavery, or at best slave wages, if it meant the price of goods remained the same. Don't tell them how the sausage is made.
Here in Seattle ($20/hr minimum) an hour of minimum wage is enough to buy A Big Mac meal and still have $6 leftover. In BFE Georgia ($7.25 minimum), you would need to work over an hour. Going to say one is better than the other.
Point taken and I agree but I think $14 is a ripoff for a Big Mac meal.
I'm not worried about the fast food prices on a 5 dollar item, I'm nervous about housing, cars, groceries. Multiply that quata by 200 and it starts becoming a lil mo harda YOUKNOWHATIMSAYIN bruh bruh. 