Antiwork

I see a ton of posts about businesses needing to raise their prices to be able to support their wages. I am an accountant for a business in the hospitality industry. We raised our wages because we want to give a fair wage. But, COGS is rising and we can't raise our prices because it would become too expensive and would cost us business. I am 100% on board with if you can't support to pay employees a fair wage, you should close down. But what happens when these companies close down because they can't afford to pay their employees a livable wage because living expenses are rising and the only companies who survived are companies like Amazon who are the problem to begin with? Does that make sense? I've been thinking about this for months and haven't been able to figure out how to research it.

Get off the chair and do something.

I like reading this sub, but I've never participated before this post. I feel compelled to address the “boomers suck” attitude I see here too often. Boomers don't suck. Assholes suck. I'm retired, in my late sixties. Friends in my age group, the people I know, the people I've hung with since elementary and high school, the people I've met on the road and lived with on communes, the people I've worked with (education) are for the most part pretty cool. We volunteer. We still support workers and unions and we tip very well. We remember our fights years ago in support of farmworkers and other oppressed groups. We're online now and we counter and argue with the MAGA-types and their weird conspiracy theories (although that is proving fruitless). And do you know who we're arguing with? They aren't grouped by age. Along with people in our age group, there…