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Old 10-12-2013, 05:33 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Maybe not.

If they paid their shareholders less, they would fail to meet expected sales goals, shareholders would get less, and the entire company would be worth a lot less. Top management would be making less money, and would leave the company to go over to Wendy's, who is in the number two slot. Without proper management the company does horrible, income continues to drop, debt rises, and the company is plunged into bankruptcy.

All those people who got raises are now unemployed.

I'm sorry, but there is a bottom tier for a reason - It encourages people to move out of that job. If you are are so unmotivated that after ten years you cannot move upwards from minimum wage, well, you don't deserve a $2 raise.
I'm not saying they deserve it. I am simply saying the McDonald's could, technically, afford to give them a raise, but if they were going to do so without raising prices the raise would not be very big. People think that McDonald's can afford to give everyone $5-6 dollars per hour in raises and have it no cause the price of food to raise and that simply is not the case.
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