• ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    The focus should be on crushing inflation, not adding inflationary pressure when everyone is already struggling

    • kossa@feddit.org
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, because breaking the inflation pressure is always on the workforce, never on the companies.

      I only ever heard “you should abstain from wanting higher salaries, 'cause inflation”. Never has a politician or economist said “companies should abstain from raising prices, 'cause inflation” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        5 days ago

        Who said it’s on the workforce? It should be on the cunts that are driving energy prices through the roof

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          Wage stagnation from greedy corps and almost non-existent minimum wage increases has been happening FAR longer then the current energy shit.

          For an equivalent minimum wage to the 1950s, just accounting for inflation, we would need to be at $20/hr. If you’re not making that, then you’re making less than a McDonald’s worker in 1955.