I’m sitting here having a coffee at work (12-hour shift on a Sunday, I’m over it), and gave some thought to a lot of the common themes on here (low pay, unreal expectations etc) and I think someone probably smarter than me can explain what the hell is the end-game?
I mean if you think about it, there’s the employer wants:
- ALL the productivity
- ALL the profits
- Pay as little as possible
- If it’s in their (company’s) best interests and they think they can get away with it, they’ll try. There’s more I’m missing but those would’ve been in the top 5 I think.
Then I thought about where that leads, and it only seems to end in everything drying up (and I’m going to future extremes here):
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The trend of paying less but expecting more, no one has enough to afford to go to work let alone buy any of the products they’re selling. End result: No customers
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Buy all the businesses/utilities so customers HAVE to use your services, until they can’t afford them and then you have a depreciating tax write off.
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Maintain things that (wealthier) people have/want, less people can either afford or want to do the work unless they charge the absolute arse-end out of it.
I mean, I don’t see it as sustainable unless I’m missing something. I just can’t see some conspiracy of making people into servants or universally poor I just see a bunch of wankers making really short-sighted and poor decisions that just evolve in stupidity. And that just leads to shooting themselves in the foot with a tank cannon.
Like i said; I’m sure I’m missing something and someone much more perceptive can explain it.
Well back to the grind.