Wendy’s Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food

Cooking takes way too much effort, and more importantly time, something proles don't have a lot of.

Because I'm lazy and depressed. I'm trying to do it anyway. I fucking hate fast food and I'm tired of eating it.

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Automation liberates workers. The problem is that corporations never pass on the labour savings technology benefits onto the workers!

Hypothetically speaking if Wendy's has say 100,000 fast food employees working an average of 30 hours/week (Wendy's has a significant number of part-time employees), that's 3,000,000 labour hours/week. And let's say they get paid $10USD/hr on average. So that's a payroll of $30,000,000/week.

Let's say this new labour saving technology reduces labour hours by 20%. So they only need to fill 2,400,000 labour hours/week. Instead of laying people off, they should reduce the work week. So the average worker would clock in 24 hours/week instead of 30.

And if they pass this labour saving technology profit onto the workers, the payroll would remain at $30,000,000/week. But it would be distributed among 2,400,000 hours/week instead of 3,000,000 hours this time.

Effectively giving the workers a 25% raise in their hourly wage ($12.50USD/hr). While giving them a 20% reduction in their labour hours (30 -> 24 hours/week).

The problem is that instead of shortening the work week by 20% and giving workers a 25% hourly wage raise, they lay off staff and give out paltry raises next year that can't even keep up with inflation to their staff. If anything.

This is why we NEED a Universal Basic Income (UBI) so that we force porky's hand. If porky is going to continue stealing wealth from the working-class and pocketing the profits of labour saving technology for themselves, we're going to have to force them to pay for all the working-class they exploited year after year.

FULLY
AUTOMATED.
LUXURY.
COMMUNISM.

Not if you do inflation instead of taxation. Inflation is a stealth tax that you CAN NOT ESCAPE FROM. If you increase the money supply and devalue the Dollar, you CAN NOT escape that tax. The difference is that in a basic income world, the majority of the working-class would receive more from basic income that they would lose due to inflation.

And the wealthy and high-income lapdogs would lose more in inflation than they would receive in basic income. Effectively putting a stealth tax onto the bourgeoisie and high-income earning lapdogs who benefit from the status quo.

The problem with reducing hours, is that the wage is also reduced, thus buying power is reduced (either way).

However, indeed, if you keep the workers and pay them less, you have less reduction.

The reason they prefer to lay them off, is that corporations (for better or worse) only see today's profits. Of the corporation.

If economics wasn't a relegion and economists the priests, they would be able to see that the meteor is not "a sing from god" but a rock comming onto their heads creating Mordheim.

And, although UBI could save capitalism for a few more decades, no reformism can save capitalism from itself.

False. Many vegetables are high in vitamin C.

Vitamin C per 100 grams - Vegetables vs Fruits:
guinealynx.info/diet_order-c.html

If vegetables are already the core of your diet (which I strongly recommend if you care about your health and budget), fruits are an unnecessary expense and luxury.

eating only dry biscuits is what gives you scurvy.

Fast food is the cuisine of proletarians, not everyone can afford to eat well.

I didn't suggest that wages be reduced. I suggested that Wendy's and McDonald's increase hourly wages to compensate for the shorter work week due to labour saving technology.

Like I said if labour saving technology reduced labour hours needed by 20%, the workers would be no worse off if you gave them a 25% raise and reduced their hours by 20%.
Before automation: $10/hr * 30 hours/week = $300/week
Post-automation: $12.50/hr * 24 hours = $300/week

No loss of income for the worker or for the corporation. Win, Win. But corporations are greedy as fuck. They want to pocket all the profit for themselves! This is why we need to force them to pay by distributing a universal basic income and inflation the value of their wealth away from the bourgeoisie and high-income lapdogs to the vast majority of the working-class.

The fire rises, my brothers.

I eat at McDonalds when I'm feeling lazy. Hardy's when I want a pretty good burger. Pizza Hut when I want some fresh Pizza. etc.

There will still be fast food in communism, it will just taste better.

Just FALC my shit up fam

I'm not saying, you're saying what you're saying I'm saying.
All I'm saying :^) is bourgies will never accept giving more money, as this would lower profit.

Indeed, with state enforcment this could work, but if you tried to do that in 'Murica in current year, I don't think you'd live for long.

I prefer to grill my own burgers (you can buy frozen beef patties at the grocery store) and buy my own toppings and buns at the grocery store. But when you buy groceries, it's a "use it or lose it" proposition. If you buy bacon and cheese to make your bacon cheeseburgers, you have to use all of it by its expiry date or it will go bad.

Also making specialty pizzas is pretty labour intensive. In order to replicate the Cheesy Poutine pizza from Pizza Hut for example I need the dough, gravy sauce base, mozzarella cheese base, french fries and cheese kurds. Can you imagine how long it would take to prepare something like that in a typical kitchen instead of a professional kitchen where lots of things are already pre-prepared to begin with?

A simple Pepperoni pizza wouldn't take much effort I don't think. You just need the dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. But a Medium Pepperoni walk-in special where I live is only $5.65CAD after taxes. Why would I go through so much trouble to make a Pepperoni pizza when I can just buy it for $5.65CAD? And a Medium Pepperoni pizza has like 1680 calories. If you buy 1680 calories worth of food at a grocery store, it's not exactly going to be cheap. And you still have to prepare the food yourself.

What? Where the hell do you live that this is offered?

Canada. Poutine is a national treasure of ours (it was invented in Quebec by the French-Canadians. But it's typically enjoyed everywhere in Canada). But I think Pizza Hut sells that pizza in the United States too. I may be wrong.

I make my own burgers too, but I'm not really that good at it, so sometimes a prepared burger is just better.

Sounds familiar. I think they had it temporarily once.

I just found out that Pizza Hut doesn't sell the Poutine pizza in the US. Maybe they had it for a limited time

Pizza Hut is so expensive here though. Fuck. $16.49CAD + tax for a Medium (12") pizza. $19.49CAD + tax for a Large (14"). No wonder people are so obese in North America. The companies encourage you to buy more food than you need by the way they price things. You get 35% more food ordering the large while only paying 18% more for it.

Velocity?

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I've never heard of this and I live in Canada, but then again I avoid Pizza Hut like some kind of random John Oliver food-based insult hur hur.

Well your dollars are worth slightly less than ours. For a large that'd be like $15 USD and they charge like $10 here. It is more, but that's because you guys have a more reasonable tax policy, labor laws etc.

Inflation devalues the currency. But if you receive more in basic income than you lose to inflation, you come out ahead.

Let's say UBI is $15k/year for every adult (and say $6k/year for dependent minors). And inflation goes up let's say 25%. If you started out with $0 pre-basic income, you'd have $15k after implementing basic income. If you factor in inflation, that $15k is now worth what $12k would have been pre-basic income. What's better? $0 or $12k? The unemployed person benefits from basic income.

If you made let's say $40k per year before basic income, that would be $55k per year after basic income. Adjusting for inflation $55k post-basic income is the same as $44k pre-basic income. What's better: $40k or $44k? The $40k/year wage slave gains $15k in basic income but loses $11k to inflation. The $40k/year wage slave walks out of this a winner.

Now if you make $100k pre-basic income, that's $115k after. Factoring in inflation that $115k is worth $92k. So they gain $15k from basic income but lose $23k in inflation. They come out of this losing 8% of their purchasing power. As a result, the high-income lap dog takes a bit of a hit.

Now porky making $1 million/year would be making $1,015,000 million after basic income. Factor in inflation that's worth $812k. Porky ends up losing 18.8% of his wealth in a basic income world.

Now this my friends is the reason why the rich keep bitching about inflation. They are the ones who stand to lose the most from inflation if the inflationary spending actually goes towards redistributing wealth to the poor.

The high-income lapdog still comes out ahead in the sense that crime is reduced, hospital wait times are diminished, and a whole host of multiplier-related effects brought on by UBI. Pretty good value for 8% less to spend.

It's really only porky who stands to lose from UBI.

And in the long run I think porky will stand to gain from UBI. Because UBI would ensure that the proles are able to continue feeding the beast. What's going to happen to Porky when the proles can't afford to buy his goods and services anymore? Porky's revenues will evaporate. Porky's assets (share values) will plunge down in value. What's the point in having the capital to sell goods and services if no one can afford to buy those goods and services?

Apple and Wal-Mart are hurting right now financially. Apple laments that smartphone sales are down. And Wal-Mart is where poor working-class people shop. If people can't afford to shop at Wal-Mart, they can't afford to shop anywhere. They have plateaued. There is an actual limit to how much wealth the bourgeoisie can accumulate.

don't worry, multiculturalism will save us from revolution.

There's an implicit argument here from the left that UBI is a sort of "life support" for capitalism that reduces revolutionary potential, but unless you're a total accelerationist I think this misses the way in which UBI is substantially, materially different - the undermining of certain forms of idpol, and access to education.

The first argument is that idpol thrives on misery, offering simple answers to class-induced suffering that can be dealt with in emotional and poetic terms. If idpol reduces crimes committed by minorities, say, or crimes against transpeople that have some root in the discontent of precarity, then idpol loses persuasive power as a theory of any kind among those most vulnerable to it.

The second factor is access to education, which means that UBI makes formal education more within grasp, even for people with families who want to go back to school. It might also improve worldliness and informal personal education among workers who want to take sabbaticals without fear of destitution, but in general, education thrives where poverty is alleviated.

I get that UBI isn't a proper socialist goal per se, but I think it could be the last stepping stone before socialism proper emerges, and if rejecting UBI isn't accelerationist then I would like to hear why.

wew right out of the gate with the bullshit

Japan has a lot of fast food restaurants. They just don't eat a lot.

Who?

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Oh shit. Perhaps we should be better workers and offer to work for pennies a day instead. It'll bring so many jobs back to America.

Because I'm fucking poor

If you own a rice cooker (and you should)

1) Fill a pot with water
2) Put the beans in the water
3) Go to sleep
4) The next day, drain the water, take out one cup of beans and put the rest in the fridge for later
5) Put two cups of water (or broth if you have it), one cup of rice and one cup of the beans in your rice cooker
6) Set the rice cooker

Going to McDonald's is a way more involved process than making beans and rice. Half of the process is just waiting.

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This is a great triumph of leftism because white scum will lose their jobs

FULLY
AUTOMATED
SLAVERY
CAPITALISM

I have a feeling this is true…

What wrong with just cooking rice in a pot

Sadly this is likely

Now to do this for every other possible job.

Fully automated slavery capitalism inhibiting social mobility

or FASCISM for short

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