I really don’t understand why you’re getting so much pushback for stating basic economics.
When steel gets scarce, the price rises and you either pay more for it, or you don’t get it.
When fuel prices rise you either pay more for it, or you don’t get it.
But, for some reason, it’s heresy for employees to expect to be paid market rates when good employees are scarce.
A lot of Freepers are small business owners or once ran a small business at one time and they feel they are entitled to set wages and cheap labor for perpetuity. The also have COLOSSAL EGOS.
See post #43 for an explanation.
That’s the point - this isn’t market rate. The labor market is being massively distorted by the government.
Most on here would rather see no minimum wage so they can pay 50 cents an hour. They’ll say no. We’ll have no workers. Well isn’t that happening now????? No workers because the wage sucks. I wish they’d that their “stupid” hat off and think.
I really don’t understand why you’re getting so much pushback for stating basic economics.
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But they’re not “market rates” when the government sets them, by giving out free money. Between the states and the feds, giving out $600 / week, they’ve set the floor for the hourly rate somewhere in the $16 range.