Remind me again how corporations have our best interests at heart
I’d be totally down to peg the minimum wage to hashbrowns.
$7.25 / 0.79 ~ 9.18 hash browns per hour.
$3.49 per hash brown ~ minimum wage of $32.07.
Makes you wonder about all the jobs paying less that and how much wages have been stolen.
“If we raise the minimum wage, then prices will go up”
raises prices anyway
It gets worse if you can prove that the size has also decreased over time.
Ah yes, the notoriously most expensive of all the vegetables: the potato.
Duuuuude I haven’t been to McDonald’s in forever but fuck me sideways with a lunch box $3.50 for a hash brown!!! You could go to McDonald’s with $10 and come home with… Two hashbrowns lol wth is going on.
Hashbrowns near me are $1.79. Still too expensive, but not about three fiddy.
I’m in Aus and near me hashbrowns are $2.80, so almost exactly the same (US$1.83). The difference is I can buy 8 hashbrowns with change for an hour at minimum wage here. That’s still double the number you could get, even at this cheaper price.
it’s still pathetic though.
Minimum wage should be enough to support a family.
I’m not sure if you’re saying Australia’s or the US’ is pathetic. Aussie one could definitely use an improvement in my opinion, and I think the US one does get brought up too much in discussions here about minimum wage. Like yeah, compared to them we look great. But it needs a big boost to cover the cost of living crisis.
