After DECADES of seeing Prices Stagnate I’m FINALLY starting to see them Increase! It’s been LITERALLY DECADES with them NOT going up at ALL! But NOW they FINALLY are because of this Minimum Wage Law!
As I recall prices have been going up for a long time. Nationally I believe all fast food chains have increased prices way beyond the rate of inflation for the past 12 years.
They know, their comment was sarcastic.
This would be the same fast-food industry that wants to replace drive-through workers with AI, right?
Since COViD especially (but it started before that), a lot of fast food order takers have been replaced by apps and kiosks.
And now they’re literally putting AI in the drive-through.
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a42940732/mcdonalds-drive-thru-system-malfunctioning/
Exploitation is baked in, without it capitalists have nothing
Yes. Profit isn’t based on smiles and good feelings. It’s based on someone working harder to make someone who isn’t doing anything a profit.
This is what happens when you try to extract more and more value off the top of labor, without any added value other than line must go up. When suppressing wages is the only way to improve corporate profits, profits are capped and stockholders hate this. This is in theory suppose to encourage innovation to increase efficency (without just resorting to skeleton crews or pressuring labor for more output). Monopolies stop innovating due to market control and look at other methods of increasing profits with leverage rather than market competitiveness.
It’s true the biggest issue with capitalism is that it’s ‘not ok’ for that line to go down, ever. It’s ridiculous. A healthy business can ride things out up and down over time if they have good policies and smart planning. Prioritizing shareholders above all is a shell game.
Firms have leverage over non organized labor even when they’re much smaller than monopolies. Especially at the lower end of the pay spectrum. Running the economy not at full employment guarantees there’s a replacement waiting for a worker attempting wage negotiations. But at the whole spectrum, unless there’s a significant labor shortage in some skill set, individual workers have much more limited negotiating power than firms. So firms employ labor abuse instead of innovation even when they’re small. Perhaps even at the small business stage.
Can’t forget those shareholders! It really worries me what things are going to look like in 30-50 years time. There’s only so much you can squeeze out of people until there’s nothing left.
Revolution if there’s no course correction.
If only someone would lead it. /s
Someone will, and there’s a good chance it would be a psychopath.
In 50 years?? Bad water wars and mass migration caused by climate change
I’m starting to doubt whether allowing “industries” to speak as a collective should be allowed in a just society
Yea well citizens unitied and now corps have more rights than human lives.
I love how Serve Safe™ has a monopoly for USA food certs.
It’s owned by the National Restaurant Association of America
They wanna bring it back to 1919 lol.
I’m just a 38/yr old burnt out line cook, now disabled with Fibromyalgia but yea the entire industry should just 🔥 I feel.
COVID unemployment payments taught me how much the government thinks minimum wage should be, in the cruelest sickest way lololol. 🥹
