MINIMUM WAGE = MAXIMUM POLITICS 🍕
This Brooklyn pizza shop owner just dropped the most based, no-BS breakdown you’ll see all year.
Frank from Paesan’s Pizza was asked what he’d say to people demanding “livable wages” for teenagers working cashiers at Burger King and Hooters.
His answer? “Well, they live in their mom’s basement. What livable wage?”
Then he went nuclear:
The market dictates wages — not politicians, not activists. These are entry-level jobs for kids still in school or living at home. They’re meant to teach work ethic, skills, and how to climb: dishwasher → counter → manager → owner.
Force “livable wage” math on thin-margin businesses (10-15% profit) and you get exactly what happened to Hooters — closures, skyrocketing prices, and workers replaced by kiosks and AI.
He even says he wishes minimum wage was $25–$30 an hour… because he’d just charge more for pizza and make more money. But the numbers don’t work.
This is the entire game in one video.
Politicians don’t care about giving teenagers their first shot or teaching them the value of a dollar. They care about sounding compassionate while buying votes. Every time they jack up the minimum wage, they price the bottom rung of the ladder out of existence.
The free market isn’t cruel — it’s the only system that actually creates real opportunity and real wealth. Mandates just create unemployment, automation, and $10 coffees.
@RepJeffries@grok@grok now, please tell the entire story why he was released from the holding center a year later, and why he was dropped off at Tim Hortons per his request.