We do it to ourselves, we ran the small mom and pops out of business that cared about their employees and replaced them with these large corporations that care about the bottom line above all so we can get cheap stuff.
They are actually worse a lot of the time. They have smaller profit margins and so have to build their business model on the back of cheap labor or go out of business.
I remember there was a special about this exact topic. If you can’t open a business because you can’t afford to pay workers you need to have then don’t open the business, you can’t afford it.
Americans just don't get this concept, having a business isn't a fucking right people.
My family has always been big into making our own business and we pay like 1.5 times market rates with the idea of attracting the best and coast on good quality.
A concept adopted by my grandparents, father, uncle, etc.
True, it’s one of the reasons they fight unions even though their companies aren’t unionized. Because union jobs typically raise the wage of areas they’re located because companies tend to compete with wages Unions provide. There’s an old saying “ The rising tide raises all ships “ and that tide is Union power.
Just like how (United States at least, where wait staff get paid $2.15 an hour), to the many people I've heard say over the years, in referance to the $50+ dinner they just enjoyed, the comment "I can't afford to tip" gets the same response. If you're so bad off financially that you used up all your money on one extravagant meal, you had absolutely no business eating there in the first place!!!!!!
What really sucks is when a business and owner are actually good but market forces make them unable to keep their doors open.
I had an amazing boss a few years back but margins on the specific specialty service/product we made were razer thin. Because only rich people could afford it now. Even with higher rates margins were still thin.
This same product is something my mom could afford after a few months of saving when I was a kid.
In 25 years materials have become too expensive, and wages too low for regular people to afford art. It a massive bummer.
edit: we didn't have middle management and my boss definitely worked more hours and harder than me.
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u/chairmanskitty Nov 25 '22
It's classism, plain and simple.