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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fast food jobs in Denmark pay living wage [View all]
$20.00 an hour...That will never happen here, will it?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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There are 16 McDonalds per million Danes, and 45 McDonalds per million Americans
Recursion
Oct 2014
#57
How is it then, that states with higher minimum wages have lower unemployment?
immoderate
Oct 2014
#66
That's what the head of the International Franchising Association said, but that does not make it
pampango
Oct 2014
#6
It's the standard excuse for not paying people or taking public transportation seriously.
tenderfoot
Oct 2014
#28
People in a First World country should not be paid starvation wages. Period.
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#38
The point is that *no one* should work 40 hours a week and not be able to feed themselves.
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#54
There is some truth to the supply and demand model, but it's far more complicated than most
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#60
Yep. If there were no truly no need for a minimum wage, then our wages would look more like Denmark.
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#62
All I know is that the libertarian "free market" ideal leads almost inevitably to massive inequality
nomorenomore08
Oct 2014
#49
I am not being "pessimistic. " It's reality, unlike your level playing field fairy tale.
SunSeeker
Oct 2014
#88
If you're going to tell me that all discussions between employer and employee to be....
daleanime
Oct 2014
#81
I heard this story on the radio. It was explained that the Danish fast food workers had a union and
Louisiana1976
Oct 2014
#27