Not only is it ridiculously untrue to say the restaurant owner “does nothing,” this meme is laughably wrong in its socialist fantasy that each employee would earn $78/hr if they took the profits. Just reading the article and applying basic logic definitively disproves this.
▪️The headline is actually misleading here. The owner didn’t just turn over all of the profits they turned over all of the SALES. Which is the wording in the article, whoever wrote the headline for this local news station screwed up by conflating the two.
https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/findlay-pizzeria-owner-gives-entire-day-of-profits-to-employees-to-show-his-appreciation/512-5fa193d2-b88a-44ea-9351-b61af44c35f8
▪️ And this wasn’t an ordinary day, the restaurant more than doubled its normal sales:
🔹”On a typical Monday, they do about 100 orders. This week, they did 220 orders, which translated to over $6,000 in sales and over $1,000 in tips, all of which went back to the employees.”
▪️Perhaps the increased business was because it was advertised as an employee appreciation day, or maybe it was because it was on July 5, the Monday after a holiday weekend. It’s not clear from the article, but it wasn’t an ordinary amount of sales.
▪️Thus, the employees’ “$78/hr” results from taking all of the sales on a blockbuster day without paying any overhead. No rent, no utilities, no equipment, not even the price of food! It was basically a creative way the owner decided to give his employees a bonus.
▪️This particular bonus was given in gratitude for his employees working throughout the pandemic (the article was from July 2021). This meme twists what appears to be a local feel good news story about a generous owner and happy workers into socialist propaganda.
▪️This statistic is just made up. The reality is that there hasn’t been a real study on this since 2013, when Pew did a poll. They found that Democrats were actually more than twice as likely as Republicans to report ever using food stamps (22% vs 10%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/
▪️Obviously, those percentages could have changed over the past decade, but it’s very likely that Dems still receive more SNAP benefits. Certainly, without an actual study or poll the claim should be thrown out, as it wildly contradicts a previous study.
▪️The meme probably comes from a 2024 analysis by Social Explorer, which found that 78.7% of US counties with the largest increase in SNAP since 2010 voted for Trump in 2020. But that tells us nothing about the actual number of Republicans (or Democrats) who are receiving benefits, just county-wide trends.
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▪️I was playing around with the new Grokipedia and it already seems much better than Wikipedia (which admittedly isn’t saying much). I was looking for a topic that is politically polarizing that I also knew a lot about, so used “Kenosha unrest shooting” to compare the two.
▪️A key component to the shooting was understanding the broader context behind the Kenosha riots and who Kyle Rittenhouse ended up shooting. Wikipedia simply says that Jacob Blake was shot by police and was paralyzed, thus unrest. Grokipedia gives a much more in-depth account so the reader can see that Blake was a serial criminal with a warrant who had a knife and was resisting arrest while fleeing with children in his car.
▪️When it comes to those who were shot, Wikipedia just gives the names and ages. Grokipedia goes in-depth on each person and about their violent criminal history and mental instability that night.
▪️Part of the left wing mythology over Rittenhouse was removing the context and ...
