Also “this economy is killing me” after they raise their fucking prices 40% in a year…
I’ve completely abandoned some of my favourite restaurants at this point.
I feel like it’s this rubber band effect where everyone just overshoot everything and now refuses to bring prices down.
I went from eating out every single day to making everything at home for the last 4 months. Cut back on my food spending by 66%
Fucking grocery prices are up big time too. I like to grill Ribeyes, and the price has almost doubled. Everything has gone up, but like you said, the restaurants are even crazier. $14 at a McDonalds for a skinny guy like me? Fuck that
I only really eat one meal a day and it’s a big one. Would be like a 2L of soda and a large pizza or a sub and app from a restaurant. I wouldn’t have it delivered but it was easily 25 bucks a day for that one meal. Now I meal prep egg cups for breakfast and cook up a big batch of chicken tacos for the week or just make rice or salad for dinner. Grocery bills under 80$ for a week. I only have one mouth to feed though and I hate cooking.
Even at $22, it’s not enough to ever buy a house or even rent.
It’s amazing how quickly $60,000 a year became the new poverty wage
Shoot I make roughly 60% more than that and still couldn’t buy a house or rent by myself unless I found a house in another state in a town with a population of 200.
I make rent on $20!
… in the middle of Nowhere, Iowa
Here in Texas you’ll see job posts from one clearly triggered right-wing small business owner paying $7.25 an hour, talking about how if you’re working there you’re WORKING there followed by a list of like 400 things you’ll be doing.
This will be next to a job post from an actually sane individual that’s paying more than twice as much for 1/4th of the effort, and you’re still being overworked.
They don’t want employees, they want indentured servants.
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Do you have a source for that comment?
https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/
Like, 2 seconds of googling my guy.
I didn’t need to google. I had heard of the origins before. They are mentioned in article as cash for servants in the middle ages. AKA vails.
First google post I found here. I know there are records of this being used in the 1600’s. A little before the civil war.
Well that is a whole 100 years before the US was founded.
Wage slavery. It should be illegal to pay a full time employee less than the minimum required amount to live a healthy, fulfilling, dignified life.
Nobody wants to work anymore
Did anybody ever “want” to work?
If we lived in a Star Trek style utopia with replicators I wouldn’t sit around eating burgers all day and watching TV, but at the same time I wouldn’t do the job I currently have.
There is no actual need to work, or at least not in the way we understand it. It’s that our society is built around the concept of generating wealth in a pyramid-style of increasingly smaller people who exploit those below them. People call MLM a scam but at least MLM understands what it is. The so-called economy is an MLM scam as well, where the people at the top bleed everyone else to increase their wealth.
I mean there is a small percentage of people who genuinely enjoy the rewarding work they do and look forward to waking up every morning to embrace the day.
But I do agree - sitting around getting drunk and high watching television all day long gets old REAL quick.
I’d do my current job if I could work for like 4 hours a day, 3-4 days per week, and do 1/3 less work per hour.
And do it from home.
Yes.
For me, the biggest shift from the pandemic was to realize just how much my hate for work was tied up in the fact that I had to go to work, rather than the work itself.
Even my last job before my current one, if they would have let me work remotely (a 100% feasible option, although my ultra conservative boss wouldn’t have ever entertained the idea), I could have probably worked there forever, trading upward mobility for complacency and comfort and flexibility.
I love my job and my work, I just wish doing it for 40 hours per week was enough to live on.
I always just mentally add a “for me” after “work.”
I do. I like doing my part to help people out with their needs.
Something something damn millennials… I mean zoomers no one wants to work. Back in my day we had to walk 10miles up hill both ways to get to work for a dollar an hour and you didn’t see me complaining.
meanwhile they paid $1000 for college and rent was $200
My inlaws paid for their entire university education working a summer job. Madness.
Yeah, I’m hitting them at reality now - paying more for my kid at a small State University, than I paid for Ivy League
At the time, I could take care of it partly by myself and partly through loans that were easily affordable given my expected pay after graduation. My kid, not so much
The idea of a “labor shortage” is just idiotic. The demand for goods and services is a function of the size of the population, and guess what else is? The size of the labor pool. Really just reinforces proof of how much economic illiteracy is out there.
I mean, that assumes all people are equally qualified for all positions doesn’t it? If the market demands 500 plumbers but there’s only 400 licensed plumbers, I’d call that a labor shortage. Now, hopefully this leads to pay increases for that trade which in turn increases the number of people pursuing it, but the problem does exist for some period of time. I feel like pretending it doesn’t belittles the pro worker argument
Henry Ford knew something about this
The reality is that the guy on the left is $15.51/hr, then they put “competitive salary!” in the job description
None of the businesses in my town are offering anything higher than $12 USD an hour and then the managers will try to talk you down from that figure.
Probably depends on your position and academic background. What are you applying for?
I’m disabled and can’t work.
