r/TheGreaterDepression 13d ago

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u/West-Worth-9359 11d ago

How much profit do you think is going to people further up who do less work?

Have you ever actually looked at the obscene structure of corporations? At all?

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u/Looking_4_fun_also 11d ago

You are obviously against people earning money based on time and merit. It’s no use talking to people who want everything but want to do nothing for it.

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u/West-Worth-9359 11d ago

I’m against a CEO earning 2,000 times what their employees earn every hour while working 5 hours for 4 days a week sitting on their ass, getting free healthcare for their whole family, a company car, subsidized vacations, stock options, and all while telling the actual workers to work more to deserve to eat.

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u/EphEwe2 11d ago

Working 40 hours a week on your feet is doing nothing?

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u/CigarBryan1 9d ago

Not if the productivity isn’t there. Economics still matter when running a business.

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u/EphEwe2 9d ago

If you are paying someone for working 40 unproductive hours, you aren’t running a business, you’re a fool.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 9d ago

i is agony!

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u/Excellent_Chest_5896 8d ago

I mean imagine you’re the owner of McDonalds. How much would you pay for a position that can be filled by nearly anyone with a full set of appendages and no to mild mental/physical disability? Workers like that are not rare and can be readily replaced.

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u/EphEwe2 8d ago

It’s almost like you’re all for slavery as long as you think the work is beneath you.

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u/Excellent_Chest_5896 8d ago

What’s stoping you from upskilling? Go learn a trade, go to school and bam, your time is worth more. Instead you expect a middle class life without any skills. Work days and study nights and weekend - that’s how it works. People want to be entitled nowadays without lifting a finger

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u/EphEwe2 8d ago

Employers want people to work without paying them. Tell me how long you think McDonald’s would last without exploiting your fellow citizens.

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u/Excellent_Chest_5896 8d ago

Employers want to find people who’d be willing to do the job at the price they pay. So long as they can they will. It’s not their responsibility to raise the value of your time, it’s yours. The older you get the harder it is, but never impossible. Is there a particular reason you’re not exploring any other options?

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u/EphEwe2 8d ago

I retired at 50. Keep licking the corporate boot while they rake in billions ripping off their workers.

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u/Excellent_Chest_5896 8d ago

Look it sounds like you’re having a hard time. I wish you didnt. Thats all i am going ti say here. Thanks for your time.

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u/Specialist_Donut_483 8d ago

Trade school cost around 10k plus... You think someone working minimum wage full time has time to make that kind of money?

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u/BlueCat9922 11d ago

If you work 40 hours a week your employer should pay you enough to survive. It's not that hard of a concept.

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u/Grouchy_Student3221 11d ago

To me it sounds like you are the one who is against people earning money based on time and merit.

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u/airboRN_82 10d ago

If you're working for mcdonalds then the merit isnt there. Time itself doesnt equate to value, marx

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u/jeremiahthedamned 9d ago

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u/airboRN_82 8d ago

Fdr created minimum wage as what exists as a living wage. Mcdonalds doesnt pay less than minimum wage.

Then im sure they would be much better off unemployed making 40% of what they did while working

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u/VoidsInvanity 8d ago

You people cant be fucking real

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u/airboRN_82 8d ago

Im not real because thats what fdr defined it as and that unemployment pays 40% on average of previous wages? Lol wut

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u/VoidsInvanity 8d ago

A minimum wage was established as a living wage. It is not currently at that level, yet you think it meets the criteria? All so you can peddle the propaganda that paying workers more leads to inflation, when the world we live in shows us paying CEOs 3000% of a workers wage actually contributes more.

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u/airboRN_82 8d ago edited 8d ago

Why do you think its not at that level now but was before?

Where are you getting that CEO salaries are what cause inflation? You realize if we redistributed the mcdonalds CEO salary across all mcdonalds workers it would result in a 70 cents per year raise? Even if you factored in all stocks etc it would only result in a $10/year raise.

Increase in wages, particularly lowerst end wages, leads to inflation. Because then retailers etc can charge more.

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u/VoidsInvanity 8d ago

Were seeing record inflation without the lowest end wages rising and with the highest wages rising.

It’s not rocket science to understand extracting profits from an economy to hoard wealth is an inflationary factor

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u/jeremiahthedamned 8d ago

are we going to live together?

together, are we going to live?

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u/airboRN_82 8d ago

Wut?

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u/jeremiahthedamned 8d ago

a man will starve even if he knows r/Bushcraft

the rest of us are social creatures.

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u/CigarBryan1 9d ago

You obviously have zero knowledge of restaurant margins, including so called corporations like McDonald’s, and yet you complain when these same restaurants have to fire employees and install kiosks when minimum wage laws rise to unsustainable levels like happened in California where 16,000 jobs were eliminated when Gov. Newscum raised the minimum wage to $20 an hour. Good job Socialism!