Should a person making food at McDonalds be able to afford rent and groceries with their paycheck?

[Consigliere]

The easy fix for these fast food companies is to cut peoples hours. If you work 32 hrs do you deserve to make enough to pay rent? How about if you work 18?

And they already do this btw. Most minimum wage workers work less than 40 hrs/wk. and they supplement their income and hours by having a second job.

Stagnant wages that haven’t kept up with inflation is only a piece of the issue here. The cost of food, clothing, shelter & education has outpaced earnings for everyone in the bottom 90%.

 

[O.Red]

Ultimately in a free market society, the true answer to this questions is one we should ask ourselves.
Would you ever eat at mcdonalds if they were charging sit down restaurant prices for their food, because if you increase the pay the food prices will inevitably increase as well. Mcd's value is in its value, you not willing to drop $20 on a bigmac then you essentially agree that fastfood workers don't deserve a living wage.

This rhetoric is bordering on out of touch. Fast food prices are charging sit down restaurant prices NOW Especially after Covid

A meal at let's say, Wendy's, is 8-12 dollars now. You can eat like a king at a Mexican restaurant for that same price range

The glaring flaw in the "the prices will increase" rhetoric is the fact that the prices will always increase anyway that's the reason nikkas are complaining in the first place

 

[Luke Cage]

This rhetoric is bordering on out of touch. Fast food prices are charging sit down restaurant prices NOW Especially after Covid

A meal at let's say, Wendy's, is 8-12 dollars now. You can eat like a king at a Mexican restaurant for that same price range

The glaring flaw in the "the prices will increase" rhetoric is the fact that the prices will always increase anyway that's the reason nikkas are complaining in the first place

Its not rethoric if thats what they will ultimately do though. you can point out the right and wrong of it, but a mcd's ceo is not gonna have a problem hiking up the prices along with the wages in order to keep his profit margins the same

 

[Sex Luthor]

They probably got missing teeth and think people should work harder. Work overtime and no union but think what Nina Turner is saying is woke socialist radical idea

I still can't believe we got minimum wage workers shytting on other minimum wage workers because they want a decent wage. Idiots literally go against their own interest.

McDonald's can people their workers get payed over $21 with benefits. fukk it, throw in a union, and McDonald's will still have billions of dollars made in profits. But socialism babble...

That's my thing. It's not that the food or the job deserves more because of the difficulty but it's a multi billion dollar company. They can afford to pay employees more. I'd rather the employees have it instead of a billionaire.

When fast food was paying $16+ after quarantine I didn't see nobody lining up to get jobs there so why they shytting on people that took that deal?

 

[Wild self]

Yes they should.

If you have an issue with a burger flipper making $15 while you make $20, your response should be to get $25, not suppress someone else's wages.

Class Solidarity, people

Cats are soooo off code, it ain't even funny. They really think that they can be CEOs one day, doing the same exploitative shyt.

I blame the irrational superficial standards of this country to stunt and to show off.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Anyone who’s against this doesn’t realize how easy it is to get down on your luck and have to work one of these jobs.

Truth. I’d work McDonald’s and get my CDL if I had to. I’m a hustler but I’d never do Doordash

 

[O.Red]

Its not rethoric if thats what they will ultimately do though. you can point out the right and wrong of it, but a mcd's ceo is not gonna have a problem hiking up the prices along with the wages in order to keep his profit margins the same

You're missing my point

It's not about what they ultimately will do, they've already done it prices will go up regardless

And I didn't make a right or wrong argument anywhere in my oost

 

[Luke Cage]

You're missing my point

It's not about what they ultimately will do, they've already done it prices will go up regardless

And I didn't make a right or wrong argument anywhere in my oost

I need you to explain your point again then. if they gonna raise the prices either way how does that invalidate my statement you respnded to that people will stop going to mcdonalds if they have to drop $20 on a bigmac?

 

[the cac mamba]

A meal at let's say, Wendy's, is 8-12 dollars now. You can eat like a king at a Mexican restaurant for that same price range

eat like a king for 10 dollars? what restaurant is that

 

[O.Red]

Cats are soooo off code, it ain't even funny. They really think that they can be CEOs one day, doing the same exploitative shyt.

I blame the irrational superficial standards of this country to stunt and to show off.

This is exactly what it is. We can be wild condescending to a lot of the jobs that hold society together. Nikkas really see fast food workers as dirt and don't even try to hide it

And yes nikkas have dreams about being the boss and coming through stuntin on nikkas and barking orders

 

[Wild self]

This is exactly what it is. We can be wild condescending to a lot of the jobs that hold society together. Nikkas really see fast food workers as dirt and don't even try to hide it

And yes nikkas have dreams about being the boss and coming through stuntin on nikkas and barking orders

Whether it is the CACs in Middle America having those $100k pick up trucks that cost $130 to fill up the tank, or the young street brehs and brehettes wanting those Rolls Royces or Bugattis, people want to be the HNIC and barking at "lesser" people.

 

[Roger king]

Anyone who works 5 days a week on a full time job should be able to afford to provide food and a roof over their head that's the basic stuff

 

[O.Red]

eat like a king for 10 dollars? what restaurant is that

Restaurants feed nikkas good in Texas

 

[Hoshi_Toshi]

Wild that we have to have a discussion on this.

 

[O.Red]

I need you to explain your point again then. if they gonna raise the prices either way how does that invalidate my statement you respnded to that people will stop going to mcdonalds if they have to drop $20 on a bigmac?

My response was to "Would you ever eat at mcdonalds if they were charging sit down restaurant prices for their food..." And that response was these nikkas charging sit down restaurant prices already