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Monopoman posted...

You are vastly overrating how much of a reduction a boycott does in profit. You act like once In-N-Out gets boycotted they are closing up stores and forced to fire half their employees. At most a Boycott probably affects about 5-10% of the customer base and that is in the best case scenario by far, it's more likely to affect way under 5%.

Shit we have seen people not even follow their own boycott before I remember PC Call of Duty players furious over no servers on PC for the game or something like that back in 2015 or some year around there, They had a Boycott group on Steam all about not supporting the new Call of Duty coming out. Someone posted a screenshot of the game on day 1 from the group and nearly all of them were playing that Call of Duty at the time, despite being in the the boycott Call of Duty group.

Well in someways they do much worse than outright fire people. They do hour gleaning. Basically they have a labor metric that updates over the day. When labor to profit gets too high they tell someone to go home. Since benefits (ha is that even a thing anymore) are tied to your wage you can actually lose and regain your healthcare on a yearly basis (depending on state and employer). So Miss Margrets hours got cut to 28 hours for a week she is now considered part time. This happens so she doesnt meet the hour stability quota in the fall for full time work and as such her benefits are taken away which meens that she can have several months of waiting for medicaid to kick in as we know private insuarance prices are a joke to anyone with kids and the good ones have conditions that may disqualify you from coverage. During that time one of her kids gets injured and can no longer see their pcp because they accrues a balance. They can take their kid to the state funded hospital outpatient but hours of operations vs heavy congestion may mean you have to wait til they are sick enough for an er visit before they can be seen.

That might sound over exaggerated but it is common occurrence for people elow 133% of the povery level and lets face the fact that fast food workers typically are not trust fund babies or people with more than $ doll in the bank account unless its payday. So yeah a 5% reduction is gonna only see the lowest workers paycheck and not anyone of merit.

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