[Alberta's Child]

As costs rise, only so much of the burden can be passed along to consumers in the form of price hikes before they decide they cannot afford the expense.

I'm trying to figure out why this simple fact can be accepted as the truth when it comes to restaurant jobs, but is not accepted by so many folks even here on FreeRepublic when it comes to manufacturing jobs?

"If a manufacturing company can't find good workers, they should just pay more!" -- common refrain here on FR.

What the statement from the article illustrates is that it's not the employer who really determines the wage scale for his employees ... it's the customer.

[CutePuppy]

I'm trying to figure out why this simple fact can be accepted as the truth when it comes to restaurant jobs, but is not accepted by so many folks even here on FreeRepublic when it comes to manufacturing jobs?

"If a manufacturing company can't find good workers, they should just pay more!" — common refrain here on FR.

Yep. Enough to give you a cognitive dissonance, eh? It may be that selective attention paradox is overriding the overall economic sense.