Based on all the charts and graphs any video or article shows regarding inflation and how many things in context of inflation may actually be better priced in relation, and other videos and articles showing the stagnation of wages for the last 30 years or so, I think it’s pretty clear that problem is not prices being too high.
The over all mentality of a decent wage has not changed since about the mid 90’s. I personally am making the same wage now at the same age my father was in 95, but his wage was enough to have a detached home, 2 cars, a boat, a 20′ trailer left at a year round camp site, and we were able to go on a couple trips. And here I am not able to cover even rent in the same city I grew up in, struggling to keep up with maintenance on my car, and only ever being able to go camping for a vacation.
This all stemming from more and more greedy execs and more and more demanding investor groups all while nearly every major company report record profits. In order to achieve that, wages need to remain low and everyone seems all to eager to complain about prices rather than the wage stagnation.
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if wages are too low, that means prices are indeed too high….
I agree, the proof if that corporate profit keeps going up.
If you’re trying to stimulate the economy, it’s much easier to manipulate market forces to lower prices than it is to manipulate employment to raise wages.
This isn’t and never will be an unpopular opinion.
There’s no difference, they have an inverse relationship. Wages being too low means prices are too high, prices being too high means wages are too low.
Wrong sub bro.
No
This is not an unpopular opinion you’re just wrong
Well, I mean, both. Prices DID just go up
It’s all fake. Arbitrary numbers.
This is already widely known. Also, you can afford a vacation that isn’t a staycation? At least you have that.
Prices and wages are two separate things that come together to form a whole. If prices go down, that means wages go up even while they stay the same. And vice-versa, any movement of either one of them…
Often if there is 10% inflation, wages don’t immediately go up 10%. Some of the inflation we see nowadays is from labour shortages, with a big greying population retiring and not so many young people. And what that does mean is that people are making more, and those increased wages are driving up the prices of the products they make.
So compared to other inflations, this one could be better for your average worker. Which isn’t necessary saying the situation is good, but maybe less worse. If you want good, start a cooperative..
“People arent paid enough” is truly an unpopular opinion that no one else thinks
the two statements mean the exact same thing…
They literally mean the same thing.
Money is not real. The inputs and outputs are though.
Home prices have doubled where I am since 2016…
Both?
This is only unpopular to the rural Americans who are a glutton for Trump’s punishment.
yes, unions are bad m’kay. That is communism i tell you!
Not really. If wages go up prices will just go up some more the gap is the problem and the gap comes from prices being too high because of greed
If the same people want to take home 26 million a year and now they have to pay us 30 bucks an hour instead of 20. They just raise the prices. Because what doesn’t change is 26 million going to the executive.
Things cost too great a portion of income. Doesn’t matter which way you say it.