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DeSwiss

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2. ''To anyone who says that fast-food jobs can’t be good jobs....''

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sun May 18, 2014, 05:32 AM

May 2014

If you're just basing the job on the wages and bennies, then yes. If you include the nutritunal value and health impact of the food -- at least as served here in the US (i.e.- HFCS, GMO-potatoes, GMO-corn fed beef, sodium hydroxide soaked pink slime chicken nuggets), then ah, no.

- K&R

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I’m Making Twenty-One Dollars an Hour at McDonald’s. Why Aren’t You? [View all] eridani May 2014 OP

Copenhagen for example is one of the most expensive cities in the world for a Big Mac. dipsydoodle May 2014 #1

Not too bad... secondvariety May 2014 #3

If that's what it would take... druidity33 May 2014 #7

Aren't living wages actually a good reason for higher prices? gtar100 May 2014 #4

Exactamundo! loudsue May 2014 #11

And the Swiss voted it down. whopis01 May 2014 #10

''To anyone who says that fast-food jobs can’t be good jobs....'' DeSwiss May 2014 #2

In America, we demonize union workers as fat, stupid, and lazy IronLionZion May 2014 #5

k&r for labor. n/t Laelth May 2014 #6

$21 is kind of steep, but it's a good motivator for workers who want to unionize! reformist2 May 2014 #8

it is distressing how many working class american idiots think unions are a bad thing.. KG May 2014 #9