• @thisguy1092
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    2 months ago

    Didn’t fast food prices increase something like 30% though? At least in my area I remember mcchickens being way cheaper a few years ago

    • @[email protected]
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      262 months ago

      Yes, but that happened way before the minimum wage hike hit, and was not limited to California. So it’s unrelated.

        • @11111one11111
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          -62 months ago

          Not exactly. Just because minimum wage didn’t go up doesn’t mean the minimum wage people were killing to work at fast food chains didn’t go up. Middle of pandemic during the mass exodus from the work force fast food wages spiked drastically. Minimum wage in NY is not $15-$18/hr but that’s where all the starting wage has been for fast food chains hiring and it never went back down. It’s how a true free market capitalist economy is supposed to work.

    • @psycho_driver
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      152 months ago

      McDonalds and a lot of the other big chains have went up drastically nationwide. It has nothing to do with the CA wage hike.

    • @Legge
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      112 months ago

      Sure, but I think the point is that raising minimum wage didn’t cause that. Inflation (read: corporate greed) really harmed grocery, food, etc. prices, especially during the pandemic. It truly became a game of how much can we raise these prices until people consider not paying for it

      • @psycho_driver
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        32 months ago

        The game is still afoot as far as I can see.

      • @QuarterSwede
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        12 months ago

        I mean, that’s always the game in sales.