But Capitalism doesn’t have to be what it is now. The crazy thing is there is enough money and resources right now where most people can have a liveable wage and a fulfilling life and there can still be some very rich people. There can be a balance .
Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end
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I’m very interested to see how this plays out long term.
Common folk trying to bully the bullies? Finesse the finessers? Strong arm the Big Dogs? We’ll see what happens.
Will they raise wages for a lil bit and cut hours or decrease those same wages later, maybe? Have people do 3x more work or drastically increase production to cover losses? Raise prices of the goods/services that they provide?
Common folk trying to bully the bullies? Finesse the finessers? Strong arm the Big Dogs? We’ll see what happens.
Will they raise wages for a lil bit and cut hours or decrease those same wages later, maybe? Have people do 3x more work or drastically increase production to cover losses? Raise prices of the goods/services that they provide?
Redguard
Hoonding
Eh...I feel that there's going to be a 50/50 ratio. There's going to be workers coming back. but the rest are pretty much gone. Hell. I left and no matter how much I miss the rush of retail, I hate what society and the business world did to retail.
I see that 50 percent either going back to school, finding legit gigs beyond retail,.....doing dirt, trying to setup the whole self made business affair (Twitch, YouTube, etc), or like me and joining passport gang because the game been rig breh. There's no more dream of going up in these dire affairs because its obvious that the suits are too busy being selfish at the table.
Ski Mask Way
he's not out there doing the gruntwork...
No..Money..Mo..Problems
it is what it is
I left my $28 a hour job in in May. Im doing doordash now until I can find a job I actually like the pay ain't actually that bad I make about $24 a hour now but I'm alot happier. The Pandemic really showed people you don't have to stay at a job you hate.
Breh, salary is not even in the top 5 biggest expenses for corporations
what?
People is going to be every companies biggest expense and there most valuable asset
Johnny Kilroy
79 points in 1 quarter
Poverty and dysfunction can also limit one’s options in the most important way: mentally.
Most who get the bag are still mental captives and remain dependent, lacking true autonomy.
Unless one is perpetually able to do what they wanna do when they wanna do it, they’re not free. In capitalism, you’re either a slave or a slave owner.
GPBear
The Tape Crusader
Who would’ve ever thought that capitalism would lead to exploitation of the worker causing widespread alienation until eventually collapsing in upon itself while society moves onto more socialist policies.
Oh every Marxist theorist since the mid-19th century
what a world
Oh every Marxist theorist since the mid-19th century
what a world
GPBear
The Tape Crusader
Keep your mouth shut, retard, adults are talking. There’s 16 million high school students and 29 million retail jobs. Negged.
Eh, what is a liveable wage?
What if the majority of small businesses in an area can't meet what you determine to be a liveable wage within the timeframe you want? Most of them aren't running large profit margins.
Should they strive to get as close as possible or shutdown?
If they do shut down, the vacuum will be filled by large companies that can afford to pay. But they'll also consolidate more power over local/state politics and consumer choice. Companies going out of business is a very much a double edged sword.
CEO of Morgan Industries
Superstar
100% correct, dap, rep, especially the bolded.
That child's time is better spent doing activities at school, volunteering, or in an internship that they can put on college apps and that can help earn them a full scholarship at a university, which is way higher in value than the 7-14 dollars an hour they'd make working part-time. If they're not going to four-year college, they can use that time to apprentice and get a few gen ed college credits out of the way instead so that they're learning their trade, graduating, and earning real money 1.5 years after they leave high school.
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Ozymandeas
Veteran
If everyone got a better education, who is going to serve you coffee and burgers
Exactly. Its no knock to some of the supervisors and managers out there, because I met quite a few that understood the struggle and even step in place of the employee to deal with the trenches. It's good that this industry is getting treated like how it should had been from the upstart (GET IN GET OUT).
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
A living wage based on math and research is 24 dollars and there’s not a single politician or worker in the country asking for that.
If you can’t pay ur workers at least 15 dollars an hour your company should not exist. I don’t give a fukk about ur business if you don’t know how to run it. I have friends who own businesses and all their employees make more than that. If you can’t do it ur a shyt business man and need to find a new job.
I work in finance, we have to make detailed focasts that take into account sometimes 3-4 years worth of shyt. I could give a flying shyt about some bytch ass small business owner who can't do basic math that doesn't involve paying his people poverty wages.
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Man, this whole system is really fukked up tbh There is too many obstacles put in place so that the poor will stay poor. You either grind until you are lucky enough to make it out, or become a victim of the system. This shyt goes much deeper than companies not wanting to pay a livable wage. There is a reason why in some sections of America you will see places that look like third world countries, and if you drive 5-10 minutes in the other direction you will see mansions .
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