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big_spoon @lemmygrad.ml

1y ago

but the inflation!

ingredient suppliers: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: ok

property owners: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: ok

CEO's: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: ok

workers: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: are you crazy? we'd have to raise prices! it would ruin us!

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Misleading tweet
he didn't mention the part where the burrito is now 1/2 the size
so it's actually 8x the original price
- And probably made with inferior ingredients.
  
  it's possible but I don't think American food standards have gotten worse in the last 15 years (2009 was 15 years ago)
This is 100% true and a demonstration of the dominant power of capital under capitalism.
At the same time, don't forget that even if minimum wage were pegged to inflation, there would still be expropriated surplus labor domestically as well as imperialism internationally. I've seen socialists get sucked into fights over the minimum wage and eventually lose their sense od priorities and messaging until they are indistinguishable from "progressive" liberals in both word and action.
Americans have developed the Taco Bell theory of labor
I feel like this is hardly even a particularly bad example.

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