• Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Out of curiosity, I found these two maps.

    Big mac prices:

    Min wage:

    I don’t care enough to plot a scatter graph of min wage vs big mac prices, but at a glance it seems to be loosely correlated at most.

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      4 months ago

      Just want to add for those who might not know, if the state minimum is below the federal, then the federal is used as the minimum.

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        4 months ago

        So there are states where the politicians would tell business people “it’s not our fault you pay so much, we’d never want minimum wage at $7.25 and that’s why we never raised ours… we gotta fight for states’ rights!” (?)

        Instead of matching the federal minimum (which is kind of a waste of time you could argue but that would occasionally send a different message at least)

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        4 months ago

        Absolutely. Beef will get more expensive because it requires a lot of drinkable water, and minimum wage will go down because it doesn’t keep up with inflation.

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      4 months ago

      I’d like to see a more recent one, since it seems the pandemic spurred a lot of the price gouging. Our minimum wage has gone up $3 since 2019.

      Also, since there’s not a huge difference in Big Mac prices between states, I’m wondering if national chains are using the min wage increase in a few states to increase prices across the board, rather than just increasing prices in the states with high minimums.

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        4 months ago

        I’d like to see a more recent one, since it seems the pandemic spurred a lot of the price gouging. Our minimum wage has gone up $3 since 2019.

        That information would definitely be interesting to see, but I wasn’t able to find it. And for the purpose of comparing min wage to prices, pretty much any year before the pandemic will do, as the purpose is comparing min wage to prices, not how the pandemic gave the excuse to corps to fuck everybody.

        Also, since there’s not a huge difference in Big Mac prices between states, I’m wondering if national chains are using the min wage increase in a few states to increase prices across the board, rather than just increasing prices in the states with high minimums.

        I’d bet that’s the case as well.

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        4 months ago

        California since then increased minimum wage to $16 and fast food workers have a special minimum wage of $20.

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      4 months ago

      You gave current big Mac prices yet wages from 2019. For example California now has $16 minimum wage and special $20 minimum wage for fast food workers.

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        4 months ago

        My bad, I wasn’t able to find a date on the inforgraphic for the bic macs. It’s rather annoying to get up to date, well presented data like this.