Another one is to point out if a business owner can't keep up with inflation they are essentially asking everyone who works for them to take a pay cut with every year of experience.
Literally. The primary and basically sole social requirement within capitalism for its social reproduction is the payment of the socially productive portion of the workday in the form of wages (eg. living wage) any deviation from that in a negative direction leads to essentially class genocide and economic collapse (workers buy the products, if they don't have "living wage" they can't buy the products and production slows, less workers have work, prices rise, cost of labor diminishes, prices fall, exploitation rises, repeat ad nauseam)
I always use this in minimum wage discussions, if you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, you're not running a viable business.
Another one is to point out if a business owner can't keep up with inflation they are essentially asking everyone who works for them to take a pay cut with every year of experience.
Talking to coworkers about tiny annual raises as "inflation adjustments" can be productive, too.
Literally. The primary and basically sole social requirement within capitalism for its social reproduction is the payment of the socially productive portion of the workday in the form of wages (eg. living wage) any deviation from that in a negative direction leads to essentially class genocide and economic collapse (workers buy the products, if they don't have "living wage" they can't buy the products and production slows, less workers have work, prices rise, cost of labor diminishes, prices fall, exploitation rises, repeat ad nauseam)