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McDonald's suffers worst U.S. sales decline since 2020, warns of 'anti-American sentiment' abroad (www.nbcnews.com)
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[+] -18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know it's cool to just hate on capitalists for everything on Lemmy but like yeah it's completely normal to complain about a decrease in profits. That's like if you complained about a 3.6% decrease in take home pay, which ai suspect anyone would.

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't compare the income of the rich and the poor. We use our take home pay to buy groceries. They use their take home profits to buy our country out from under us, to buy our land and our companies, to buy our politicians, to buy our time. We are not the same.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year ago

    yes, 3.6% less profits for most of us means "should I pay the electricity bill and starve for a couple of days?". For Ronald McDonald it probably means "here's another round of layoffs to streamline operational efficiency or whatever"

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Their decrease in profits is pushback for bad behavior though. So it would be like getting a 3.6% decrease in take home pay because you got demoted for misconduct.

    Or alternately, that extra money was from a non-guaranteed bonus and you got a smaller bonus this year.

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