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.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
