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>people just didn't want to get hired and do small works off the books instead because life was just better like that. The blue collar industries have issues h
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
>people just didn't want to get hired and do small works off the books instead because life was just better like that.
The blue collar industries have issues hiring junior people for exactly this reason in many of the HCOL parts of the US. Nobody in their right mind wants to suffer through a couple years as a lube and tire tech when you can work when you can get paid more fixing people's cars under the table.
- s17n 6y agoSounds like the issue is that the "blue collar industries" employers need to offer higher salaries?
- simonh 6y agoI'm sure their customers will completely understand, pay the higher costs without complaint, and not at all go and find alternative suppliers.
- s17n 6y agoThe alternative suppliers that don't have any employees?
- tablespoon 6y ago>> Sounds like the issue is that the "blue collar industries" employers need to offer higher salaries? > I'm sure their customers will completely understand, pay the higher costs without complaint, and not at all go and find alternative suppliers. The real issue may be that the investors won't understand, and won't take reduced profits without complaint.
- simonh 6y agoWhy not call your retirement fund managers and let them know you really don't need _that_ much of a pension after all.
- tablespoon 6y ago> Why not call your retirement fund managers and let them know you really don't need _that_ much of a pension after all. I'll take the lower pension, will you pass on the message for me? For some reason, the fund managers won't take calls from individual participants. I'm just noting there's multiple dials here, and it's weird that it's often totally forgotten that "less profits" is just as reasonable as "higher consumer prices." Also you'll note that there are some people who profit extraordinarily from capital and have extraordinary control, and there are some people who profit much less and have even less control than that (and have little choice but to participate in the system as it exists). It's a false equivalency to equate the two.
- astrange 6y agoIsn't car maintenance the kind of business that's more likely to be an SMB or family-run rather than have investors? There's brands like Firestone and Jiffy Lube although I thought everyone knew that was a scam by now.
- Naracion 6y agoWhy would those establishments be scam?
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