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"lower wages are good actually"
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"If they pay us half as much, then the price will go down by half"
This con has been going on for generations, and apparently they still are getting people to believe it. Just a few years ago I had a coworker who said he would not want a higher wage because of the increase in the cost of products.
These people need to be shamed. Believing something like that is fucking embarrassing.
Literally. Everyone’s cynicism magically disappears when talking about porky.
“Poor porky’s hypnotized into being greedy because you mistrust him! Who cares he’s richer than ever!? Give porky a raise and he’ll be satisfied and totally choose to make things more expensive on himself!”
Some people are just really well (irreversibly?) indoctrinated into the imperial capitalist viewpoint. My goal is to find the people who are compatible and leave behind the ones who aren't.
You'll hate to know this further detail
that this same guy would show up 2 hours early to work, and start working 1 hour early (unpaid), because he had nothing better to do with himself.
The level of indoctrination to believe that “price controls are totalitarian communism” while simultaneously placing the price of labor in a distinct, non-price, category that must be constrained.
Inflation is nothing but a tax on wealth, so long as wages rise accordingly. And they say that somehow taxes on wealth are unconstitutional. Wealth is protected and sacrosanct, but income is not.
What you’ve already “earned” (almost always by virtue of being born rich) is untouchable and sacred but constraining earnings is a matter of public policy.
The degree of indoctrination is just incredible. And this is Politico. Mediafactcheckbias^TM^ ranks them as “center left”.
Labor must lose earning power so that billionaires and bankers are protected. That’s the center left.
Yeah I have a vivid memory of someone saying years ago that if the minimum wage was raised that prices would go up, "But prices are going up anyways" they had no response.
Literally them whining the porks will throw a tantrum and go on capital strike in protest of being told to close their maws, they have enough.
And then they whine when labor strikes crash the economy, but the porks collaborating to destroy the economy to get an even better deal for them? “It’s porky’s property and we have to respect that! Besides, I live vicariously through porky!”
the current minimum wage is almost old enough to vote
Is this trickledown, reversed edition?
I think that especially in this case, it's just as likely 40 years of being actively invested into the world as it is. This guy was not rich but he owned his own house and car and boat and stuff, and had raised a family stably enough without obstacles or disasters in life.
To accept the proposition of surplus value theft is to come to terms with the idea that someone has taken advantage of you for a very long time. It's cognitively easier to tell yourself that there's nothing wrong with what happened before and the world is fine as it is and the people at the top either deserve it or have no meaningful alternative to their ruling position.