{"id":61313,"date":"2016-12-13T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61313"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:10:39","slug":"i-have-seen-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61313","title":{"rendered":"I Have Seen The Future…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Living Wage” activists carp that without labor, there’d be no business. \u00a0To follow that logic, one would assume if you gathered ten drive-through and fry-line workers together, a fast food restaurant would spontaneously form around them.<\/p>\n

Less facetiously, we note that a “marxist” restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which promised “vegan, vegetarian and raw food” and promised no bosses or managers and a “Living wage” for its employees<\/del> collaborators, has closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Worse still, while the food earned Bartertown a spot on VegNews\u2019s \u201c10 Hot New Vegan Restaurants\u201d list, customers complained that it was almost impossible to get a meal at the diner.<\/p>\n

People frequently noted on the restaurant\u2019s Facebook page that they waited more than 40 minutes for a sandwich\u2014and that\u2019s when the diner was even open. Because the employees set the shop\u2019s hours by group decision, the restaurant opened and closed at random times, leaving potential sandwich buyers totally confused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, don’t laugh. \u00a0With its minimum wage and sick time ordinances, Minneapolis is about to follow suit. \u00a0Saint Paul is rarely far behind. \u00a0And the only thing standing in the way of Bloomington following blindly behind would be the Mall of America – the only notable thing in Bloomington – saying “um, no”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Living Wage” activists carp that without labor, there’d be no business. \u00a0To follow that logic, one would assume if you gathered ten drive-through and fry-line workers together, a fast food restaurant would spontaneously form around them. Less facetiously, we note that a “marxist” restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which promised “vegan, vegetarian and raw food” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61314,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61313\/revisions\/61314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}