If you work at Timmy’s do a count of how many ice caps you make in a day. Multiply that by the cost. I guarantee on ice caps alone you make more value than you get back in your check

Libs learn about the labor theory of value and are like, “so what if people skim a little off the top? The business has overhead.” This is not skimming. Most people lose more than half of their labor value every day.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I agree with the general premise of both the thread and what you're saying here, but it sounds like this guy gave them the sales, not the profits? If so they'd effectively be producing 78/hr minus what ever the cost of ingredients (including shipping), utilities and equipment.

    I expect the profit per employee is still pretty high though.

    • LibsEatPoop [any]
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      3 years ago

      The article says profit while the video says "all the money". Even then, the owner expected to be able to pay them around $50/hr. Compare this to their actual earnings.

      Ohio's min. wage is $8.8/hr btw and tipped workers, students, part-timers can be paid even less.

      The current minimum wage in Ohio is $8.80 per hour. The tipped wage is $4.40. “Tipped Employees” includes any employee who engages in an occupation in which he/she customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) per month in tips...Employees under 16 years old, and any employees who work for companies grossing under $314,000 yer year, may be paid $7.25 per hour

      Ohio Under 20 Minimum Wage - $4.25 - Federal law allows any employer in Ohio to pay a new employee who is under 20 years of age a training wage of $4.25 per hour for the first 90 days of employment.

      Ohio Student Minimum Wage - $7.48 - Full-time high school or college students who work part-time may be paid 85% of the Ohio minimum wage (as little as $7.48 per hour) for up to 20 hours of work per week at certain employers (such as work-study programs at universities).

      Source

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The article says profit while the video says “all the money”.

        Did you mean the reverse? Didn't watch any videos, but the article states they were given "sales and tips"

        • LibsEatPoop [any]
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          3 years ago

          There's a Facebook video linked in the article. And there was discrepancy b/w the article title and content (profit vs revenue) so I checked it out.

          • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Eh, well in any case this is all splitting hairs I guess, sorry for starting the hairsplitting for no reason (personal flaw).

            Point is that the workers are generating a bunch of wealth and living in poverty of course.

            • LibsEatPoop [any]
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              3 years ago

              No problem, I've seen that point about it being revenue and not profit brought up a couple of times, so it's a valid concern. At least, putting a number makes it tough for libs and cons to say employers are only "skimming a bit from the top".

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, I think the biggest actual cost beyond restaurant employee labor is probably just paying agricultural and logistics workers to get you ingredients.

        It's been a long time but I remember working at McDonald's a long time ago and finding out what labor vs other overhead was and doing some napkin math on how many McChicken™ sandwiches I was making an hour and being kind of astounded at how much income was been generated off of my labor.