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Honestly, I think this is good for Tahoe in the long run. The NIMBYs who constantly block development are getting a taste of their own medicine. When they’re fi
by hmsshagatsea 5y ago
Honestly, I think this is good for Tahoe in the long run. The NIMBYs who constantly block development are getting a taste of their own medicine. When they’re finally fed up with the low staff and poor service they’ll see the need for affordable housing.
- ed25519FUUU 5y agoWhen the elephants fight the grass gets trampled.
- underseacables 5y agowhen two elephant make love or war it is the grass that suffers
- BrianOnHN 5y agoI love elephants
- anonuser123456 5y agoElephant dung fertilizes the grass and is necessary for long term health of the plain. Just saying...
- spaetzleesser 5y agoOr do the unfathomable: Pay people better.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThat's not likely to change the housing situation that appears to be the fundamental problem in this case.
- listless 5y agoI don’t understand the “pay people more” sentiment. It _seems_ like the correct and obvious solution, but it seems like it just moves the goal line. Margins are razor thin in restaurants specifically. If you pay people more, you’ll need to raise your prices and that will offset the pay raise if it happens across the board. What am I missing?
- labawi 5y agoExports, tourists, buyers of inflated properties (income) CEOs, managers, capitalist rent-seekers (outflow)
- HarryHirsch 5y agoThe fact that rents could drop but a readjustment of the value of real estate cannot be allowed to happen.
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- over_bridge 5y agoI suppose for a restaurant specifically, the people who work there and who eat there are very different. If higher wages leads to higher unit price, its not the worker paying that difference, its the wealthier customers. Of course in the general case, the places the workers do shop at, probably supermarkets, will notice that people have more money to spend and will likely try to capture that extra money for themselves - either because demand of certain items increases or just plain greed. So continues the endless, exhausting and unwinnable battle between wages and inflation
- spaetzleesser 5y ago"its not the worker paying that difference, its the wealthier customers." Exactly.
- listless 5y agoWhat if it becomes widespread? And every restaurant raises wages to attract workers while also raising prices? In other words, we need some people to be paid very little to produce the cheap food for these hire paid food service workers. Where is the bottom?
- Chickenosaurus 5y agoPaying more can entice people to commute, but there is still no housing. The real solution is more housing.
- SilasX 5y agoYeah this comes up a lot in /r/LeopardsAteMyFace on reddit. Example thread (about this happening in the Hamptons): https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/o9mbz8/the_rich_in_the_hamptons_drove_up_prices_even/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/o9mbz8/t...
- ryandrake 5y agoWhen I watched the movie Elysium, I always wondered where the restaurant workers, hotel housekeepers, and other service workers on the station lived. Maybe it was all automated. If the rich want to have these rich-only enclaves, they're gonna need to learn how to be a little more self sufficient.