Since my employer did not care about adjusting my wage for inflation i came up with a new concept.
Work time inflation, in principle it is very simple.
I signed a contract in a year, let's say 2020 for 40h and a salary of 40k.
Obviously I don't care about the 40k but about what I can buy from that money. So if my purchasing power in 2020 was 40k and in 2023 is only 35k and I don't get a raise i reduce my work output accordingly.
After all we trade productivity for purchase power, and money is just an interim to measure that.
So since I did not get raise i work 5 h less to get back to my initial wage.
I think this is a very fair concept, especially considering that some Inflation is desired by the system. But since no one seems to care to also adjust the salary accordingly I found it appropriate to reduce the hours worked.
What are your thoughts on this concept ?
(Of course I don't tell my employer)