‘I was stunned by the business’: Fast food CEO says profits soared after minimum wage hike

practicalityinpraxis:

jumpingjacktrash:

scloutier:

an-actual-stone:

glaringlymonochromatic:

randaness:

saywhat-politics:

And then something amazing happened…

surprising everyone, except for people who make at or near minimum wage and anyone who understands economics

Literally what every millennial has been asking for for years
Of course your fucking business does better when everyone has more money in their pockets
When we have don’t have the money to spend, we can’t fucking spend it, who’d have thunk?

More money flowing means more money flowing. Surprising.

Economically, the most useless people are the ones who have money and won’t spend it, not the ones who don’t have it and MUST spend it.

reblogging again for that last important fact

This is one of those articles where I want to be like “water is fucking wet” but I know there are so many people who will not acknowledge this shit until they hear it from the people they’ve been trained to trust by capitalism.

So it’s entirely a necessary article. It really is. There’s a huge audience for whom these kinds of articles are necessary. It’s good to have them, and to spread them. The writers were right to write it and the publishers right to publish it. Information is power, and having more easy and accessible stories like this from people that broad audiences find immediately trustworthy or authoritative.

But also WATER IS FUCKING WET.

‘I was stunned by the business’: Fast food CEO says profits soared after minimum wage hike