How much would a cheeseburger and a shake cost?
It seems awfully dangerous to think that we should pay people less because otherwise things would be expensive.
This is exactly why/how wealth is moving up and up to a smaller proportion of people at the top
You're assuming that's why I was asking.
If you're asking for an actual number of the price of a Cheeseburger and a Shake? I don't know, but it may be a number that's ultimately better for society?
1) economies of scale, factory farming employs very few people per pound of meat produced, having been subject to a lot of automation. Likewise, supply chain areas like storage and shipping move a lot of product per employee.
2) 'butchers' and similar jobs are relatively high skill and likely pay above minimum wage anyways. They also have better economies of scale. But at any rate, it's unlikely professional butchers are particularly involved in producing meat for fast food burgers and likely 1 or 2 low wage employees in a factory are doing all the manual labour involved in producing meat for hundreds of burgers.
At any rate, I don't think the null hypothesis can really be that every level of the supply chain has the same level of labour costs.
As a nit to my original post, butchers was more meant to be representative of a class of service that is relied on by consumer-level providers. I think we can agree that it is fair to assume there are more than just first-order workers who make less than $24 a hour in most supply chains these days.
https://www.businessinsider.com/denmark-mcdonalds-pays-20-an...