Social Minimum Wage now at $20 an hour in California

[Prutfis]

Well who would have thought a big rase in the minimum wage would caused price increases and companies looking to cut employers.

Everyone but the left .

Tell everyone again how tariffs work?

 

[Madmick]

Maybe fast-food traffic is declining is because what they are cranking out barely qualifies as actual food and it's $82 for a fucking Happy Meal.

That's what they've always put out.

No, the reason fast-food traffic is declining is because prices surged because California artificially raised the minimum wage. But you can stick your head in the ground and pretend there isn't a stampede if it makes you feel better about people across the aisle from you being right.

 

[PeterGriffin]

That's what they've always put out.

No, the reason fast-food traffic is declining is because prices surged because California artificially raised the minimum wage. But you can stick your head in the ground and pretend there isn't a stampede if it makes you feel better about people across the aisle from you being right.

Assuming the people across the aisle are even right to start with.

Well, I guess I am old enough to remember GOOD fast food then. My McDonald's had a pirate ship in it, little metal ashtrays, and the food tasted quite good. The burgers were made of meat, not mealworms or protein substitutes. But I can see how walking up to automated teller to place your order and playing roulette on whether or not they even get it right in the first place is so much more appealing than what I got to experience.

And couldn't the raising of prices have anything to do with the impacts of all that fun tariff tit-for-tat stuff too as a contributing factor to rising operating costs for business owners? Been about the right amount of time now to start feeling those trickle down effects.

 

[Madmick]

Assuming the people across the aisle are even right to start with.

Well, I guess I am old enough to remember GOOD fast food then. My McDonald's had a pirate ship in it, little metal ashtrays, and the food tasted quite good. The burgers were made of meat, not mealworms or protein substitutes. But I can see how walking up to automated teller to place your order and playing roulette on whether or not they even get it right in the first place is so much more appealing than what I got to experience.

And couldn't the raising of prices have anything to do with the impacts of all that fun tariff tit-for-tat stuff too as a contributing factor to rising operating costs for business owners? Been about the right amount of time now to start feeling those trickle down effects.

Yeah, 2023. I can barely remember it. Everything tasted so different then.

 

[oldshadow]

Tell everyone again how tariffs work?

Tell everyone how you think what I posted in this thread was wrong instead of deflection.