...uh okay?
So back to my questions, by what scale?
Care to have a conversation and not just repeat random excerpts you read from a textbook?
So tell me, how exactly are we expected to consume all those goods in that basket that are used to measure inflation, when we are not paid in proportion to our increased productivity? Do those goods just pay for themselves with wages we do not receive?
Whenever I hear inflation I instantly think "how much do you want to bet a bunch of greedy landlords and whatnot jacked up their prices without any of their costs going up even remotely as much, while blaming it on inflation?" and I feel like it's literally every landlord, capitalist who's money makes them money and they have an overinflated sense of importance and societal value
Which means it doesn't hurt to look at executive pay on top of historical profits, as those are counted as operating costs as well.
IIRC the ratio between highest and lowest earners within a company has skyrocketed from about 25:1 to over 3000:1 in the past 75 years or so...
By what scale? Medieval peasants only had to pay 10% in taxes and got sooooo much free time. Technology even today is still bad for us, but nature and free time? Come on, what's the point of having all these gadgets and what not if we don't have the time to use them, and they're all run by faceless corporations who make things as addictive and monetized as possible?
Productivity. That's what you want to compare to wages, and it has definitely increased faster than wages, so why aren't the workers being paid proportionately to their increased productivity?
It's a good thing Russians don't have religious claim to Ukranian land lest they get a free pass like Israel does
Humanity is broken 🤕
I literally only shop there when the in app deals are better than the advertised sales at Shoppers Drug Mart, which tend to equal or best sales elsewhere like Food Basics, plus I get points at shoppers for every penny spent but not at Loblaws. It's not a hard decision where and when to shop. No Frills used to be good but their sales tend to be on par with Loblaws these days
They dgaf about corporate social responsibility. You know, the bullshit universities were going on and on about while telling us we would be the next generation of CEOs, all the while selling us useless degrees that couldn't even get us a fucking supervisor position at a dollar store.
Honestly bruh, there's being an "armchair expert" and then there's being in touch with reality. Your choice
It kind of does when you say they "have to" raise either prices. Why can't they take the loss and let it eat into their excessive executive compensation packages? They could take a huuuge hit without going into the red.
I take it you subscribe to the belief that the only way to successfully run a business is to have ever increasing years of historically high record profits, year after year, at any and all costs?
Lol what? Did you miss the whole record profits during the pandemic combined with layoffs and stagnant wages? Sheesh bruh
Experience? If you say so, again just sounds like you're quoting a textbook.
If you're referring to experience all the way back to your quality of life comment, how old are you? Quality of life has definitely dropped since baby boomers were in their 20s and 30s and 40s
Sure we have netflix, we're all interconnected and have instant access to information on the internet, but we can't raise a family on a single income, we can't pay off college or university with a single year of a summer job