You sure it’s going to be us instead of shaving half a percent of the Bezos budget for rocketry or something?
The elites don’t usually do pay cuts.
Here’s a dilemma for you - if they can raise prices for us without any consequence why haven’t they done it alredy?
Do you register the same concerns about all of us being forced to pay higher prices when companies do stock buybacks?
Walk in to a McDonald’s now that they’re paying over $15 an hour. There are half the employees in the restaurant than there used to be. They got replaced with touchscreen kiosks.
Walmart, same thing, 2 lanes open and the rest is self checkout.
Just pay people more isn’t the whole answer.
We’re currently in a situation of rising employment rates and dropping inflation.
Also the reported rate of inflation is very misleading considering it doesn't include housing, energy, or food costs, which just so happen to be sectors of the economy that experienced the most inflation.