Are there any capitalists on this board? There is a very real problem when people can make more money not working than at McDonalds.
What should McDonalds start paying $40,000 a year. Guess how much a Big Mac would cost if the did that
New York congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has long advocated for the wage hike,
condemned the decision by the Democrats to not include a rise in hourly pay in their COVID-19 bill, while mentioning what workers in the European country make.
"It is utterly embarrassing that 'pay people enough to live' is a stance that's even up for debate," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
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Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD's workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep compromise—a big one, considering the phase in."
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The most recent
Big Mac Index even states the burger currently costs around $4.87 in Denmark, cheaper than the average $5.66 cost in the U.S.
In a 2020 opinion piece for
The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof noted how a Big Mac "flipped by $22-an-hour workers isn't even that much more expensive" than an American one.
"Big Mac prices vary by outlet, but my spot pricing suggested that one might cost about 27 cents more on average in Denmark than in the United States. That 27 cents is the price of dignity," he added.
For years, people have been looking at the price of fast food in Denmark to argue for an increase in minimum wages in U.S.
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