1)The price of a Big Mac isn't just facilities, labor, material, and marketing. It's also profits.
2)So? McDonalds doesn't have a right to sell a product a particular price point. Someone's unsustainable-for-society business model is not society's problem.
3)That big mac is costing us all money because McDonalds, like other starvation-wage employers, is relying on government assistance programs to keep their workers fed, housed, and healthy.
Wallyworld hires people to help their employees file for welfare. Wallyworld made $183BN in profits last year. That's roughly $80,000 per employee.
Tell me with a straight face that they can't pay people sufficiently that they don't need to be on welfare.
Let's say that means a dollar or two more an hour. Two dollars an hour more for every employee (I don't know how many of Walmart's workers are minimum-wage retail, but it's certainly not all of them) would mean taking $4,000 out of that $80,000.
A five percent profit loss.
For an employee making federal minimum wage at $7.50/hour, a two dollar raise would be 27% pay increase.