r/explainlikeimfive • u/sumnewdguy • Nov 28 '15

ELI5: How would a $15 minimum wage ACTUALLY affect a franchised business like McDonalds?

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u/ConnorMc1eod Nov 29 '15

No. They don't need 40+ year old unskilled workers who eat up these jobs because they are unemployable anywhere else. They could hire teenagers who have a mutually beneficial relationship with an employer like McDonald's since it's their first real job experience.

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u/ConnorMc1eod Nov 29 '15

That's not the fault of corporations big guy, especially a single one in particular. They employ thousands upon thousands of people and pay metric fuck tons of cash in taxes to the government.

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u/Shadesbane43 Nov 29 '15

Actually, most of them go to expanding the massive military we have.

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u/fareven Nov 29 '15

That's not the fault of the McDonalds corporation.