This just in: Businesses are in business to make money.  

If this sort of thing is what Hodge wants to write about he should try to get a job at Mother Jones or something. I log in to Jalopnik to read about cars, not about dreary leftist victimology.

I wish people understood the dynamic between a Franchisee and a Franchisor - making comparisons as if the two operate as one entity is just a sign of ignorance towards how businesses work.

These are ment to be ENTRY LEVEL jobs and pay accordingly. The mandate that these slackers who can’t muster the motivation to be under-achievers should earn enough to “live” on removes the incentive to work on their skills and education and get a real job that supports their lifestyle.

That is the way that business works.  when something is no longer profitable, it is abandoned.  

I am struggling more than a little with the cognitive dissonance of this article, but more the theme.

I realize that no one at Gawker understands the difference between revenue and profit. This is evident by the fact that your properties keep going bankrupt. $7B in revenue is meaningless unless you include all of the other numbers.

The average Pizza Hut franchisee makes a whopping $92k per year. That’s after taking…

The article mentions nothing about the amount of profit the California franchises make (as a percentage or otherwise). So the article doesn’t address the point at all.

lol absolutely no reason anyone should be working at a pizza shop for 9 years. Loser.

Also the corporate entity in a franchise model is a totally different company than any franchise.

This is an extraordinarily stupid statement on multiple levels.

This, their actual net income, meaning how much the company made after expenses was $1.325B in 2022 at least from the number I saw, and what Pizza Hut corporate made does not mean the franchise owners made that kind of money.

Mentioning the Aral Sea.  The fucking Soviet incompetents killed it.  There is no Aral Sea anymore.  The stupid fuckers.

“Offenders can be cited to court, but there is no guarantee they will show up to court, and often they are simply released”

I agree with almost everything you’re saying, but Loki season 2 was awesome. 

That’s exactly what RAM is doing with the 1500 REV.

That big meanie Elon, how dare he not be a far-left loon

Which is especially shitty given what a great cast they put together for the new characters. Along with Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac are all charming as fuck and they had great chemistry together. 

Yeah, this is weird because I think the Kylo Ren story is the most engaging part of the third trilogy. I get everyone wants to bitch about the movies, but this seems... weak?

I know that if your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. What’s confusing you is that this might not necessarily be a Right vs Left thing. In fact, it would be far more interesting if the movie steered away from such tropes, as they usually turn to parody rather than commentary.