Greedy CEOs have milked the average American household for $12,000 since the pandemic. As a businessman, I can explain how they’re doing it.
  • K1nsey6@lemmy.mlEnglish
    47·
    3 months ago

    And they’re pulling those numbers out of their ass as if raising a minimum wage to something that is still an unlivable wage is progress.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      62·
      3 months ago

      What is that, if not progress?

      If the thesis is “let’s keep going we need way more”, the great. If the thesis is “let’s shit on the team that achieved 30% higher wages and imply they’re the same as the team that actively wants to undo all of that and leave us with just the 20% inflation and no higher wages” then I will respectfully disagree.

      • K1nsey6@lemmy.mlEnglish
        27·
        3 months ago

        That team didn’t do shit for higher wages, until there is a federal livable minimum wage, they haven’t done shit.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            What did the Biden administration do that brought increased wages about? Which specific policy of his do you credit with the increase in wages?

            • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
              21·
              3 months ago

              The two big things I’m aware of are (a) firing Peter Robb on Biden’s very first day in office, and replacing him with a staff at the NLRB that was actual labor people (b) raising about 2 trillion dollars via increased corporate taxes and then spending about half of that on programs designed to create domestic manufacturing jobs

              (Oh also the answer to what happened to working class wages since 2020 is they went up by 12%, inflation adjusted)