• @Thurkeau@lemmy.world
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    -649 months ago

    Would you pay $20 for a Big Mac? …though they’ll probably automate the cooking and cashier positions, so they don’t have to pay an employee what I make as a robotics technician.

    • @Player2@sopuli.xyz
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      279 months ago

      Have we seen any of that happen in the places the company already operates that enforce a decent wage?

    • @Lightsong@lemmy.world
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      209 months ago

      Are you ignorant or what? There’s proof worldwide that paying your workers decent wages doesn’t cost more. Also, imagine what would happen if workers actually had money to spend… Guess where they’d spend.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        109 months ago

        I don’t think he’s a very good robotics technician if he’s only making $20 an hour.

        He could be flipping burgers and making that.

    • @Jas91a@lemmy.world
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      139 months ago

      I think if they could have done that (automate the cooking and cashier) to save paying $3 wages they would have.

    • @APassenger@lemmy.world
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      79 months ago

      How much of the overall cost do you think is labor? Because your dollar figure implies you’ve overestimated by plenty.

      Assuming USD.

    • @kwking13@lemm.ee
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      59 months ago

      No, I wouldn’t. That’s why they won’t price it at $20. They’re gonna have to figure something else out or just have a complete negative loss in the state. You can try to price gouge people but they’ll likely just go somewhere else. This is some bs thinking through and through