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by snowron6 1209 days ago
>I bet you also think that cutting executive salaries would somehow make major corporations like McDonalds be able to pay all of their workers a living wage. I would encourage you to do the math on that -- it literally never works out.

Hmmm, in Denmark McDonald's manages to pay their workers ~$22 an hour[1], with 6 weeks of vacation, and paid sick leave without substantially increasing prices[2], and remaining profitable.

1: https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...

2: https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index