Please ignore the wild growth of grocery costs. Also I hate how "inflation is only 2% now" but the fucking eggs still cost 2x what they did 3 years ago.

  • Teapot [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    This isn't a measure of raises, it's a measure of average wage. If you want a pay increase, you need to move jobs

    • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      If you want a pay increase, you need to move jobs

      Poors only have lateral class mobility. You want minimum wage or a buck or two above minimum wage (that is functionally still minimum wage post-tax)? Sure. An actual, tangible pay increase? Good luck.

    • 陆船。@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Powell explicitly stated last year unemployment was too low. Interest rate raises and layoffs have rebuilt the reserve army of labor specifically to suppress your ability to move jobs and seek higher wages, even in the labor aristocrat jobs.