Meet Matt Striker.
Matt is not a fan of the fight for $15, a national push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Why does Matt feel that way?
He’s concerned. Concerned about the cost of burgers.
If, Matt says, you increase the wages people are paid, the cost of the goods will rise.
Matt is correct.
But Matt is also very incorrect.
How’s that?
Let Matt explain.
https://twitter.com/Matt_Striker_/status/867406671307472896
Here’s a rhetorical question not related to the minimum wage: What’s the sound of 10,000 Twitter dunks happening simultaneously?
(P.S. If you don’t understand what’s wrong with Matt’s logic, just stay quiet and keep reading and hopefully you’ll figure it out. It’s pretty simple!)
https://twitter.com/LegKickTKO/status/867408332222595073
Everyone knows burger places only sell 1 burger per hour. https://t.co/b9AIgRmG3p
— Derek (@ricketyoldshack) May 24, 2017
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah https://t.co/XjqToPjO1i
— that rocks (@epitasis) May 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/brotherflounder/status/867409969263652866
https://twitter.com/polwres/status/867410423598985217
https://twitter.com/optimistic_tour/status/867410582672220164
https://twitter.com/croqodial/status/867411127105273857
https://twitter.com/adequatehost/status/867411467179622401
https://twitter.com/KiranOpal/status/867414604661567488
I too am a big fan of just saying random collections of words and acting very matter of fact about them. https://t.co/cna6uZR3rr
— Barry (@TheBarrylad) May 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/867423890456289280
Is that why it cost me $7 million to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2? https://t.co/fJWL7j1ibl
— Max (@trashp0ster) May 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/VileIain/status/867428305204637696
"How long can it take to make a burger? An hour?" https://t.co/4UVUTSVI3Y
— aaron, a hate crime doer (@theyshootactors) May 25, 2017
It takes over an hour to make exactly one hamburger. And they can only make one at a time https://t.co/BylN1YMhFz
— Tarnished Holly Green (@winnersusedrugs) May 24, 2017
We could go on, and on, and on, because the tweets go on, and on, and on, but suffice it to say, that’s not how economics work.
That’s not how anything works.
Much like everyone who has been owned, Matt denied he’d been owned.
How do you arrive at the conclusion that the Tweet implied it takes an hour to cook a burger ?!?! My gosh…
— M@ (@MattStrikerTV) May 24, 2017
But he had been owned.
https://twitter.com/House0fShadow/status/867781578369507328