Working at McDonald's has been always considered a failure to mid-class people, and it is the stereotype of low skilled, minimum pay kind of job.
Don't disagree with this, there's a reason why crypto dudes use McDonalds as an insult and why normies use this stereotype to insult crypto dudes when the markets crash.
But as of right now, working at Mcd's pays $18/hr, creeping close to actual skilled work pay.
I don't live in the USA anymore, but as far as I've read, there hasn't been a respective bump in skilled work pay in order to maintain a pay gap between low skilled work and mid-skill jobs, all I see is the minimum wage at places where burger flipping is the norm, edging closer and closer to the level above.
Are we gonna see a time where people quit skilled work to work at McDonald's, earn a very similar wage but don't have to worry about deadlines, corpo-job stress and all the shit people endure in order to receive a better salary?
This is not the whole story of course and the above most likely won't happen any time soon because there are several downsides to working at McD's.
McDonalds are usually owned by local franchise people and they don't like people working more than 32 hours a week depending on the state in the US because then workers can start suing for full time worker rights. Full time workers are treated differently than part time workers and even if fast food and retail paid the same wage as mid-skill jobs, the upside for working a 9-5 mid-skill job trumps any low skill gig, but still my point stands: minimum wage and low skill jobs are coming too close in terms of money to mid-skill jobs's wages.
We also have to consider that inflation is up 20% but still, as far as I know, only low skill jobs are getting this kind of wage pump.