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.
So many of these right wing accounts are just whiners now, this is a diatribe about automatic sinks and towels, the horror! As I explained in a prior post, most of the newer terminals have great bathrooms, some now have completely private stalls and plenty of them. The worst and most crowded airport bathrooms are invariably found in aging terminals that are decades old. It’s a reminder that airports were usually drab and uncomfortable.
I think the heyday of the air hand-dryers was like 15-20 years ago, where often you couldn’t find real towels. Now you can at least usually get real paper towels in airport bathrooms. Remember those old cloth roller towels that would go in a loop and somehow “clean” themselves? Yuck! Public bathrooms have always been gross, it seems some are deliberately having selective memories.
Airport food and drinks were always expensive, but now practically everyone brings those huge cooler flasks with them and fills them up. So not sure what he means that ...
I first critiqued this terrible take by looking at how food has actually improved substantially. Even though I said the same could be done in every category, people said “you’re only doing food.” So let’s do air travel and see why it’s not gotten better, not worse.
▪️Aircraft have greatly improved. Just 15-20 years ago, many domestic routes (~15%) were flown by turboprops like the Brasilia, Dash 8 or Saab. Now, almost everything is in jets, and most aircraft have WiFi. Some even have Starlink, where you probably have faster WiFi than your home. Most major airlines offer dozens or hundreds of movies and shows to watch.
▪️Newer designs like the 787 have lower cabin altitudes and improved humidity, which make a huge difference in passenger comfort on long haul flights. The first/business class international market has gotten very competitive globally, with many carriers offering excellent service and amenities. Pods, suites, showers, etc. Coach still sucks but is dramatically cheaper ...
This is the complete opposite of an empirical fact. The right has now joined the left in being pessimistic about the modern world and completely unappreciative of the amazing abundance we now have. I’ll just focus on food here, but you could do it for almost every category.
▪️Fresh produce used to be available only in season. In the winter it was canned or frozen. People used to send fruit for Christmas gifts, it was that much of a luxury good. Now, you can get giant, sweet berries year around in every grocery store. Corn on the cob in February. Not to mention once rare items like dragon fruit, heirloom tomatoes or baby bok choy.
▪️If you didn’t live on the coast, seafood was either not available, frozen, or extremely expensive. If you lived in the Midwest and traveled to coastal locales you would quite literally be able to eat food you had never seen. Salmon has become much more abundant and accessible. You can get fresh ahi at Walmart today. Sushi and oyster bars exist everywhere ...
