The Big Mac is an awful sandwich

This appalling excuse for a hamburger doesn’t deserve its de facto status in the political discourse around minimum wage.

While engaging in some light doomscrolling last week — a much more common occurence since COVID-19 started, and even more so last week with my wife and baby out of town and me home alone with nothing to do — news started to cross my timeline of president-elect Joe Biden’s call for a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour as part of his pandemic relief bill.

Naturally, people on Twitter had opinions about this. But in the replies to nearly every viral tweet I saw talking positively about the proposed minimum wage increase, I started to notice an interesting pattern — that is, one product in particular name-dropped over and over again: