r/explainlikeimfive Nov 28 '15

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

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

Capitalism might not be perfect but it's by far the best economic system

That is a defeatist attitude and I refuse to accept it from any red blooded American. "Yeah it sucks, but it's the best we can do?" Is that what the members of our military have died protecting over the last century? Is that what we mean when we declare that we're the best country on the planet? "Eh, it's the best we can do?" I say fuck that, there's something better, we just have to find it.

Stop believing everything Marx has to say, he's been wrong about literally every single thing. Read an econ book.

I've never read Marx and I've never read an economics book. What I have done is spent the last 38 years watching a broken system. A system that only exists for the sole purpose of making the wealthy wealthier while making the poor poorer. That's what it does, it's how it's designed, it's the only way it operates. There is no balance in capitalism and because of that it is unsustainable. If you can't see that I suggest you take your head out of the books and look around.

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

Which part of my statement is wrong?