https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-small-businesses-cutting-opening-hours-losing-revenues-employment-2021-10
someone please help me budget this my business is dying
"raise wages"
no
Unironically screenshot and save all articles like this and use it as a constant reminder that the private sector the American people hail as all-knowing are run by entitled, spoiled brats that think they are owed labor.
If you're into hiding your power level, would be funny to troll people by accusing restaurant owners that post shit like this as "peasants that try to cosplay as us patricians!" Then argue "we should raise the minimum wage so only the most truly hardworking businesses can stay afloat, these lot are so afraid of a decent challenge!"
If small business tyrants can't get enough employees by paying the wages they currently do, they will have to pay more to make themselves more competitive in the labour market. It's basic economics.
Maybe they should stop whining and pick themselves up by their bootstraps
or just scale back the business to just them you can pay yourself however little you like
This is manufactured. I bet they want to pass some bullshit that 95% helps big business, but sometimes maybe helps people who have public rapport.
I don’t even believe there’s a labor crisis. I think it’s purely a manufactured crisis so the media / rulers can get the public onboard with anti-vagrancy laws, rationing, and declining standards of living.
If I made about 1.5x what I make now, but as the boss/business owner, I think I'd count my blessings and pay my workers. These folks want ridiculous income for themselves and expect their workers to live off of starvation wages and tips.
These folks are so greedy and short-sighted. I'm glad it's finally biting them.
They call lefties entitled but operate under the presumption that their employees will create more value for free.
Porky has to pay taxes like everyone else? Poor porky is being oppressed! He doesn't owe anyone ANYTHING! Employee candidates don't even bother applying to jobs they can't afford? It's their patriotic duty to feed porky! You owe porky everything!
Lolberts are just totalitarians that think they're freedom fighters because they don't call plutocracy a government. Unfortunately, them dodging the right technicalities seems to fool quite enough people.
what do you mean market pressures can impact my small business :porky-scared-flipped:
At Maid to Sparkle, a residential cleaning service in Richmond, Virginia, the workforce has fallen by roughly half, according to owner Jonathan Bergstein.
As a result, the company is cleaning between 15 and 20 houses a day, down from 30 pre-pandemic, he said.
He said that he had to turn down business and reschedule loyal customers, who he feared he could lose to a competitor.
At Maid to Sparkle, a residential cleaning service in Richmond, Virginia, the workforce has fallen by roughly half, according to owner Jonathan Bergstein.
As a result, the company is cleaning between 15 and 20 houses a day, down from 30 pre-pandemic, he said.
He said that he had to turn down business and reschedule loyal customers, who he feared he could lose to a competitor.
Imagine owning a business that "only" gives you $300,000 in profit from stolen labor every year, and you feel this is a crisis and you cannot sacrifice another penny of your stolen profits in higher wages.
I do think that something very strange, very special, and somewhat rare is happening in front of us. Nobody is really organized, and it is not a labor-solidarity movement. It is people acting in their own rational best interests, as economics has always predicted. People are individually coming to their own conclusions that the current conditions are not worth suffering for the wage that is being given. Time will tell whether this movement develops into something or just fizzles out.
I've had the same vibe. Economists are freaking out about Stagflation all over again. But there's this implicit understanding that turning off the :brrrrrrrrrrrr: won't hurt labor nearly as much as it will fuck the corporate bottom line this time around. So there's no Volker-Era on the horizon, at least until businesses get organized enough to capital-strike Americans back into line.
And if they do that, and we tank the economy in the shadow of Red China, that really could be it for the American Imperial Project. A nation that is openly hostile to labor cannot survive in an economy that so heavily relies upon skilled workers to keep the engines running.
Capital is withdrawing because they're hoping pressure to raise wages will be relieved, particularly if they shut down the economy. We are hopefully, finally, entering once again into an era of clear antagonism between working people and the bosses. However I wonder how much class consciousness the American worker has at this point. I have definitely seen a lot of people complain about people that don't want to work, even from people that should know better.
