https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/11/27/california-gold-rush-town-typifies-labor-shortage-plight-vexing-businesses/
Yeah it's called slavery. Doing things for people who would gladly let you freeze in a gutter.
Insurance broker, waitstaff, AND vice-mayor? Two of those jobs are fake as fuck baby
These people live in a fantasy world where minimum wage jobs don't require you to clear your schedule for call ins.
and growing
I hate how they say this like "Wow $14 is high wages and it's growing!!!?!!1"
That is shit wages. It doesn't matter if $14 is higher than it is usually, if it isn't enough to live safely on, then it isn't enough. $14 doesn't pay the rent.
And rising "inflation" just makes those wages even shittier.
Oh only 4 shifts week at 14 dollars an hour plus tips on top of that, working less hours and getting paid more than the average restaurant service worker to scab?
All the while being a petite boogie member of the city government with the ability to exert pressure to increase labor standards for the local working class after experiencing a taste of their plight (to a lesser degree) then deciding to say fuck that and tell other petite boogie dirtbags to partially proletarianize in order to try to maintain the crumbling status quo for your fucking treats?
What a fucking dirtbag
what happened to sheer unabated love for the free market? those business should just fucking die, no? they are clearly less competitive if they cant staff themselves
This is a microcosm of neoliberalism, where all that free market talk goes out the window as soon as it looks like a large company might fail. Just applied on a smaller scale by this mayor.
I don't doubt that a ton of small businesses in the US would go under if they had to pay reasonable wages. But I think that says a lot about the underlying issues with the capitalist structure of our society more than anything. It's an entire system that needs exploitation to run. And if people can't be exploited enough, it all collapses.
This is what every single ideology knows about sweatshops abroad but is more widely accepted because it exports the suffering.
Everyone knows if we paid an actual good/fair wage (even if your definition of fair thinks profit is okay 🤮) to people making shoes and clothes and electronics that everything would be more expensive.
No ideology denies this but neoliberals claim this is good actually because it allows for a linear increase in "development" (ignoring the inherent exploitation that they say will go away as GDP go up but have to know on some level it doesn't if they cared to look at anything the IMF does)
I bet a lack of slave labor would collapse the US economy even if all the chattel slavery turned into sweatshop, pennies a day, above the arbitrary extreme poverty number.
Average rent for a 1BR apartment in Folsom is $2.1k, apropos of nothing
The idea that I'm working for more than just myself, but that person is exclusively my boss, and he won't even care about having more money, made me a communist. I can't imagine lifting a finger to assist private interests of my own volition. The idea sickens me.
Corrupt vice mayor paid so little by the corporate overlords they serve that they need to work three jobs to survive.
Folsom seems kind a cursed place from what I know of it. Rent is obscene, the architecture is boring and bland, and it mostly serves as a traffic generating commuter community to Sacramento where all the rich people live to avoid having to actually contribute to the city they rely upon for their economic and cultural lives.
So, you know, just like every single other shitty California Suburb.
