This should be higher up. How many times I have read the bs story of how higher wages will make a burger unaffordable (USA)... even some here on BP have said that.

I hate to upvote such dire statistics, but the point this BP makes is the point all others need to really understand. We can’t can’t ever change or improve a problem if we don’t truly “get” what the problem itself is made of.

They’d have my vote!

But but ...If I blame the rich then I'll have to share that responsibility one day when I'M rich. /s

Cue the : "Save the rich from paying taxes because they are basically all just as poor as a church mouse" believers.

It’s all just greed, man. That really sucks.

Now THAT'S what a great manager does for his team.

I found out I paid more taxes than Donald Trump too

You mean a two party election where each party is a structured hierarchy, like a corporation, is not the best democracy?

AOC has my vote and I'm not even American!

If only people would really grasp the idea that if you invest in making a better life for everybody, you yourself benefit exponentially from that improvement.

But Mr Bank, to eat the food in the fridge I need to actually BUY food to put in the fridge.

I met a veteran on public transit. Found out that he gets the same amount of income I do from the Veterans Administration. He lives in a tent behind the Salvation Army building. Says he prefers it so that he can have a little bit of spending money and can eat better food, that it would take his entire income to pay rent.

I can't upvote this enough. #FACTS

Brilliant.

This is why people charge $120 for simple tasks like fixing a leaky faucet. You're not just buying that 30 minutes of work. The worker has to get to your place, have the right tools and expertise.

Also, nepotism is the way for quick promotions.

This is soooooo true. Bailouts are somehow always available when corporations need it but no when everyone else needs it.

Well if you really compared, how the normal plebs are to the aristocrats as opposed to, the current day average employee to the "billionaires", then yeah. The wealth gap is really obscene these days, considering one person has the wealth equivalent to millions of people. I don't think lords owned millions of serfs back in the day.

Even people from outside the USA know that this is the problem that will never get solved because the rich simply won't allow it.

Education here in Sweden is (usually) free and you can take a loan from the state without any interest (except for inflation) so you don't have to work while you're studying. Also, if you can't find a job after you finish your education you can postpone paying back your loan for a maximum of five years. Yes, we pay more in taxes, but this helps the whole society in the end.

I heard Chipotle is a shitty company.

Bankers are vultures...

Isn't it strange how businesses think that the law of supply and demand should not apply to them when it comes to hiring people so the government should step in hunt all those lazy shïts down who refuse to work for $7.25 per hour?

We can be loyal, but it must be both ways

Pandemic and pandemic lockdown situations in a nutshell

Failing implies attempt at the opposite, and because there hasn’t been any, I’d say ”failed” is not the correct F-word for that last sentence.

Energy companies should be government regulated to avoid this. It sounds a bit radical but having your people (voters and tax payers) freeze to death because of corporate greed is terrible.

That man!

I've worked remote for 15 yrs. Best thing ever.

For a year I've spent 200$ a week on groceries and since January I've been getting roughly 2lbs less of everything for the same amount of money. Thank god it's only three of us and we grow a lot of our own food in the summer. Vegetables fruit and fish have really gone up. Even the crappy junk food. My daughter and I make our own oat milk now bc it sells out so quick too

If that is substantiated, then it's truly disgusting.

Exactly what happened here in Australia in NSW. The justification for hammering down the well overdue pay rise from the politicians "if we give it to them the rest will want one and we can't have that happening". Why not? Every time the civil serpents in Canberra get a pay rise the politicians give themselves one too and vice versa. Major rises above inflation with NO productivity or condition reduction offsets. Usually annually if not more often. Yeah "selfish crazy unions" indeed

Im hoping they put us in play-pens like puppies so other aliens can come and adopt us.

There's no scarcity. There's just rich people telling poor people that other poor people are out to take their jobs. So poor people are fighting each other over the crumbs that rich people drop. Divide and conquer.

The USA spends more money per capita on just Medicaid and Medicare than the other G8 countries each spend for their entire Universal Health Care programs. Also, except for Russia, USA has the lowest life expectancy of that group.

I don't get why that would be illegal

All empires fall. All of them. The Roman, the British, and the American empire will fall too.

The 90s were a golden period for sure. Although if you wanted a slice of kitchen sink realism from that time you could just watch Roseanne