Costco workers in Norfolk have unionised and Costco are seething.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
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I mean, if you're getting richer and richer as time goes and retire at the point where your purchasing power is at the highest it's even been, then yeah, you're doing pretty good for yourself.
Central Banks aim for 1 to 3% year on year inflation, if you're at 3% year on year wage increase then you're golden, people with a collective agreement don't have that in most cases!
Oh boy!
You plan to bring actual arguments to the table or you're only able to be sarcastic and when it comes to actually developing a point you just prove that you don't know shit about fuck?
My sarcasm implies the point. Your "arguments" are just stating something is good enough because "positive means more better", while ignoring the complexities of the issue at large. How much is enough? And averaging out inflation over time indefinitely without specifying time intervals is disingenuous. Defining useful time intervals for that which aren't inherently biased to sway the overall argument is in itself a debate to have. This is all without challenging the assumption that the worker's value stays the same or increases very slowly over time, so they must be happy with an effective raise.
Seeing as how you don't care to address the obvious major points that come up in conversations about inflation vs wages in your argument to begin with, and are happy just making hammy assertions, I'm happy to just mock them without putting in too much effort. Why would I let myself fall prey to the bullshit symmetry principle to someone already signaling bad faith with hammy statements?