• FiveMacs
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    Let these companies cripple themselves all because they don’t want to pay fair wages. If they can’t be bothered to ensure humans can live, they don’t need to be in this world.

    This is just bully tactics. Take the Loblaw strike/van and apply it to every one of these companies. Let corporations for once die and fail if they can’t handle the realities of this world

    • NeuromancerOPM
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      The people were living just fine before. Now, they don’t have a job in a state with high unemployment. Seems like the governor created a problem when things were working just fine.

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        These jobs were already lost before the $20 wage. If you live California, you would know this as they have been installing machines to order your own meals, while the counter was no longer there besides to pick-up food. So no this had been planned since before. They are just using an scapegoat to say this is why.

            • NeuromancerOPM
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              then what are you disputing? People do better employed than unemployed in a high unemployment state. California has the highest unemployment rate in the country.

                • NeuromancerOPM
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                  -108 months ago

                  That is outside of the minimum wage increase. That is just bad government. When I left California, there were things I missed, but it was declining rapidly when I left.

  • @[email protected]
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    Unverifiable statistics from a fascist propaganda machine.

    Meanwhile, the nation of Zimbabwe has no statutory minimum wage and the unemployment rate for 2023 was 9.1. There is no direct connection between these two things and anyone who claims so is either foolish or deceitful.

    • NeuromancerOPM
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      That’s heartless to want people to lose their jobs when they were happy with their wages. You’re going to chip in and help them pay their bills?

        • NeuromancerOPM
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          lol. You crack me up. As the article points out it made them unprofitable. So they laid people off or closed. You can’t take a lower margin when you’re already a negative margin.

            • NeuromancerOPM
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              lol. None of these are doing that. You think a franchise owner is making 2000x times their employees ? A McDonald’s profits about 100k. That means the demise owner has to put down 1 million to get a 10% return. That means they are making 5x an employee but carry all the risk.

              You keep ranting about a living wage which by itself doesn’t mean anything. They were living in their wages before which means it was a living wage. Now they have no wages. So now they have an unlivable wage.

                • NeuromancerOPM
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                  lol you confused executives with franchise owners, that makes your argument irrelevant.

                  The article is talking about franchise owners. So why are you going on about some mythical executive is beyond me.

                  Stop saying living wage since you don’t understand the word. It doesn’t mean what you think.

                  I wasn’t always well to do. So I do understand the struggle. Why id rather have a job at 16 an hour rather then zero.

    • NeuromancerOPM
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      Well good for them. When that other place opens, they’ll have a job making less money. I’m sure that’ll male them happy