• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So a 25% wage increase resulted in price rises of less than 4%. This is such a good trade off that you’d have to be extremely intellectually dishonest to be able to be against it.

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      7 months ago

      Or extremely selfish. They see their wage stagnating while costs increase and think of lower-income earners as deserving of their place in squalor, rather than respected and dignified.

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        7 months ago

        Aww :(

        Those price increases of 25%+ are not because of this change, that’s just opportunism. Price increases of between 5 and 7% still seem worth it to me.

        I found a McDonald’s franchise cost breakdown where staff wages were 27.5% of the total cost: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/mcdonalds-franchise-cost-vs-profit.html . A 25% increase on those wages, would mean a total cost increase of almost 7%, so it seems like Mr Rodrick is honest with his pricing.