America’s favorite ill-informed neoliberal pundit, Matt Yglesias, has unveiled a masterpiece.

Stirred to action by the New York Times’s excellent recent piece about Denmark’s high fast-food wages — which are maintained by the power of the United Federation of Danish Workers — Yglesias responded with an article headlined, “$20 an hour minimum wage really would cost a lot of people their jobs.” The sage of Vox believed he had spotted “the crucial fact buried in the twenty-ninth paragraph of the article”: namely, that McDonald’s has far fewer restaurants in Denmark (relative to population) than we do in the US.

Conclusion? “Mandating high wages for fast food workers has more or less the impact you would expect — low levels of fast food employment.” (But also this ass-covering sentence: “Obviously this is not a slam-dunk proof that forcing US McDonaldses to pay Danish wages would lead to the closure of two-thirds of the McDonald’s restaurants in the country.”)