https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/03/worker-shortage-will-lead-to-uk-food-price-rises-industry-warns

  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Hmm doubled the price of tomatoes due to labor costs, eh? So presumably you've more than doubled workers' pay? No?

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Capitalism is supposedly the way to incentivize people to work, so get out there and incentivize binch

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They are incentivizing people to work. Want a tomato? Now you have to spend 4x as much on it — how will a person get that money without working?

      Someone said that Brexit was a plot to turn the UK into a financial haven with a huge pool of indentured workers who can’t leave. This article makes me think that idea makes a lot of sense.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    in communist china, employers refuse to raise wages even when short of workers, and instead remove their social safety net to make them desperate enough to take terrible jobs, and just blame the workers for laziness when even these cruel measures don't work