“Independent advocacy group of McDonald’s owners” independent from what? The businesses they own are literally dependent on McDonalds.
What was the calculation, that if they increased every employees’ pay by $10/hour that would be completely balanced out by a raise on the big Mac price by 5 cents or something?
It could be more than balanced out by turning executives into unpaid interns
B-b-but at those wages we’ll have to raise our prices to unsustainable levels!
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to maintain our $13 billion in profit last year
Tell ya what McD’s, let’s do it anyway and if it turns out to actually be devastating, I owe you a coke.