Remind me again how corporations have our best interests at heart

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      Duuuuude I haven’t been to McDonald’s in forever but fuck me sideways with a lunch box $3.50 for a hash brown!!! You could go to McDonald’s with $10 and come home with… Two hashbrowns lol wth is going on.

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      $7.25 / 0.79 ~ 9.18 hash browns per hour.

      $3.49 per hash brown ~ minimum wage of $32.07.

      Makes you wonder about all the jobs paying less that and how much wages have been stolen.

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        We won’t make it long enough, due to the extremely destructive and uncaring nature of our economic systems, but if we did humans would look at this era as a new dark age. The brutality will only increase as the climate worsens.

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    So a 8 hour work day at minimum wage is 16 hashbrowns x 140 kcal = 2240 kcal.

    This is barely enough kcal to feed one person for a day.

    So by working minimum wage 7 days a week you don’t even have enough money to feed yourself with hashbrowns.

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      I don’t think hashbrowns have the best dollar/calorie ratio. That said, we still need a higher minimum wage, and not just for the visionaries who want to live off hashbrowns

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        It’s not like hashbrowns are a fancy gourmet food either.

        It’s shredded potato fried in oil. It was farmer’s breakfast in Switzerland because it’s cheap, calorie dense ingredients that can be stored for a very long time.

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      I’m in Aus and near me hashbrowns are $2.80, so almost exactly the same (US$1.83). The difference is I can buy 8 hashbrowns with change for an hour at minimum wage here. That’s still double the number you could get, even at this cheaper price.

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          I’m not sure if you’re saying Australia’s or the US’ is pathetic. Aussie one could definitely use an improvement in my opinion, and I think the US one does get brought up too much in discussions here about minimum wage. Like yeah, compared to them we look great. But it needs a big boost to cover the cost of living crisis.

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            Aussie. I am Aussie, both are pathetic though.

            The minimum someone should be paid is enough to support a full and happy life + retirement.

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                Kinda? I think basically everyone now is realising that CPI doesn’t properly account for living costs of the underclasses. Given the like widespread increases in homelessness we’re seeing and associated rent/mortgage stress.

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                  Look, that’s fair. You could absolutely make a good argument that CPI doesn’t cover the real inflation rate. The ‘Vimes Boots’ Index proves as much. But I kinda get frustrated when people directly compare our systems as if they’re equally shit. We’re starting from a way better place, even if we should get more.