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.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
