Corporate behemoth McDonald’s, which owes its multinational status to a funny-looking clown convincing sentient humans to shove billions of cardiac time bombs down their gullets, has come under fire in recent years as people have finally awakened to just how ruthlessly and shabbily it has stepped all over the workers that make up the company’s lifeblood as it has accumulated zillions of dollars in value. Just last week a crowd of 2,000 protestors
The first regularly-paying summer job was working for the town I lived in for the summer (gardening, trash, whatevz). It paid $1.25 an hour (or $10 a day). But that was in fucking 1965.
Interestingly, I just checked, and the BLS tells me that that is equivalent to $9.41 an hour today, so maybe the minimum wage has just always been goddam low, but has still managed to get worse.
If only food stamps were honored at McDonald's, it would have its own version of a wet corporate dream.
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The whole thing makes me Grimace.
The first regularly-paying summer job was working for the town I lived in for the summer (gardening, trash, whatevz). It paid $1.25 an hour (or $10 a day). But that was in fucking 1965.
Interestingly, I just checked, and the BLS tells me that that is equivalent to $9.41 an hour today, so maybe the minimum wage has just always been goddam low, but has still managed to get worse.