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Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

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Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

Or, and hear me out here, we can view this with a little sympathy: there’s $60k in rewards for anyone who turned this guy in, and the person who did it makes peanuts at McDonalds.

Now, I don’t know if I would do it, but I can completely and utterly sympathize why someone who makes poverty wages would turn class traitor for what almost certainly life-changing money.

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Well then this person is a moron. They won’t see a dime. Maybe a pat on the head and a gift card from the dollar store.

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49 points

Employee of the Month

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They’ll let him order anything he wants off the dollar menu!

Which is really just a pack of fries, minus the fries at this point, becaues what store has a dollar menu anymore?

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No way the average person working at Mcdonalds does anything but blow 60k even if they get it.

Edit: To be clear, I spent 4 years working at one. Good people, bad people, but not much economic sophistication in either group.

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I don’t. Might as well just be a cop if you think like that, plenty of room for bootlicking morons in that profession.

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Here here. I’m poor as shit, got no insurance whatsoever, 60k would be somewhat life changing for me. I would never ever squeal on a comrade like that, even for millions.

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12 points

Find out finds everyone

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Neat how that works. Keep the populace poor and they become a wall to wall surveillance system for you. And people worry about technology…

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3 points

Off-topic question: are rewards money taxable?

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There’s no reason for them not to be treated like any other income.

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If I remember correctly, they can be anonymous. If that’s the case, they wouldn’t really be easily taxable. Still, we are talking about the government here, and if they tax lottery winnings, I would bet they tax rewards.

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The downvotes on this really make me question my faith in humanity.

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Only the downvotes?

What about the cheering on of murder in the street?

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shooter and ceo were closer in class than the shooter and working class

Ah, good ol’ “anyone who makes enough money to pay rent is part of the capitalist class, not the working class”

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Some people think anyone whose parents actually owned a house are “the elites”.

No. The CEO earned more in a year than even someone with a six figure salary would earn in a lifetime.

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9 points

I dunno. I’ve never met the narc, and I already don’t feel like he’s on my side.

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Simply a lack of class consciousness. America has worked hard since the rise of the USSR to topple workers power through union busting and destruction of community.

Basically we are built by our material conditions.

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One doesn’t have to go far to find a boot-licking class traitor who thinks if they run the rat race well enough they’ll get a piece of cheese.

But to be fair to the McDonalds worker, the cash reward is designed to do just that.

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$50k is 1-2 years pay for the person who reported him. For them, that short term relief was worth more than the highly improbable outcome where this man’s actions actually impact their life in a positive way in the next few months. Money wins almost every time

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I’m glad the rat will most likely get denied their pellet.

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We can’t tell you who squealed, but it was one of the dozen employees at this McDonald’s. Probably the one that’s going to change jobs soon…

I’d be pissed and scared if I was an employee at that McDonald’s

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He had everything on him to get caught and convicted. I don’t think he wanted to run forever.

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America’s working class has a long history of buying into propaganda and acting against their own interests. It’s a huge reason why the medical industry has gotten so bad.

That being said, it’s important to keep our anger focused on the system, not people who are getting suckered by it.

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It pains me to see so many people ready and willing to beat up their Trump voting neighbor who fell for propaganda designed for them but not the Trump financing ceos

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Jokes on you if you think this is going to change anything

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Oh look, nothing relevant changed. Looks like my comment still stands.

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Because they rely on “tips” , as the corporation is unable to pay a wage that is sufficient to support a basic standard of living. If only capitalist weren’t so greedy they wouldn’t be relying on the tips to survive.

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I worked at McDonalds for a few years when I was younger. They didn’t let us get tips.

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Also worked there. There is no McDonald’s that has ever allowed tips. It’s against their corporate rules. I even saw an employee get written up for accepting a tip, once.

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Some of us aren’t brainwashed into bloodlust by marxist bullshit, even though we’re poor.

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Some of us would like it if we and people like us were not poor for the rest of time.

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