Does it help road construction workers if we accept lower conditions ?
It's not a zero sum game, and I totally side with other professions to fight for decent working compensations.
It's not a zero sum game, and I totally side with other professions to fight for decent working compensations.
God knows the rich won't ever pay their fair share.
> Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power [...]
You're both totally right that giving people enough money to live might increase the inflation. But that's not an option people are (rightly so) going to be happy with. "Just be miserable" is not a plan.
The current situation is completely absurd.
In addition there also is no skin in the game here, over-hiring or other blunders on core leadership competencies don't matter at all as long as "shareholder value" isn't negatively affected in the short term.
I've been one of the people hurt most by this, and I'm not happy about it either. Software Developers doing mental gymnastics to align themselves with the investor elite instead of their fellow working class Americans is some shit.