this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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TranscriptA tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.

Apparently

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It is only sixty hours per week overtime if they pay time and a half after forty.

That's less then fifteen hours per day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Would actually get quality service at that price.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There is no way that is the case.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

People opposed to a living wage honestly don't give a shit about the math.

They're not thinking. They're just regurgitating something they saw on social media or their preferred news agency.

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