Five Dollar Footlong, all month long

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Subway sucks

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Plus, they're likely being paid minimum wage. So what's the point?

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Plus, they're likely being paid minimum wage. So what's the point?

Minimum wage?!  What's the point?

You want to take a great big dump on MY thread with a comment about public policy, do you?

Fine, it's a free world.  Let's go there.  Let's assume that they're being paid minimum wage.  With minimum wage, an employee can purchase one and a half foot-long subway sandwiches per hour.  At the end of an eight-hour shift, an employee could purchase 12 foot-long subway sandwiches.  If he chooses astutely, and gets one of the really high-calorie ones like the foot-long tuna on wheat, he could feed a family of four for two days.  Not that he would have to, because most people working for minimum wage are not heads of families, but rather sons and daughters of breadwinners earning a little money to buy booze and pot.  And yes, at the end of an eight-hour shift, you can buy a decent bag of mary jane even if you're only making minimum wage, and still have enough money left over for a foot long tuna on whole wheat once the munchies kick in.

But that really isn't the point.  Nor is the fact that a government-mandated minimum wage, according to price theory, causes unemployment.  Nor is the fact that the President has asked the congress to consider raising the minimum wage.  Nor is the fact that the congress, thankfully, will probably not raise it.

These are so very far off topic.  The point is that all month long you can get foot long sandwiches, made to order, at Subway for five dollars.  That's the point.  That's the only point.  This is not a political thread.  But feel free to take a big dump on my friendly apolitical thread.

It wasn't meant to be a big dump. If I wanted to make a political point, it wouldn't have been made in 3/4 of a line of text. I'm sorry if I bothered you with that comment, I was being a little rude, but I can assure you I'm not trying to destroy a perfectly harmless thread. My apologies, I just don't take sandwiches all that seriously.