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I'd love too see some well researched stats to back that up. Otherwise I'm calling that complete bunkum. Increasing prices, even before the inflationary pressu
by dspillett 3y ago
I'd love too see some well researched stats to back that up. Otherwise I'm calling that complete bunkum.
Increasing prices, even before the inflationary pressure caused by outside forces in the last year or so, have more than eaten any increase on average salary. The extra jobs vacated by EU citizens we've made officially less welcome are mostly jobs people don't want so instead of increased employment we've got seasonal work & other "unskilled" work not being done, and low paid but high stress jobs (nursing care etc.) also going unfilled. Other vacant jobs are in areas we have not yet made up the skills shortfall in (have you tried to get a plumber in recently?).
The wealthier "class" is doing perfectly fine and knew they would be, that is why so many of them told big porkies to convince others to vote that way.
- ipaddr 3y agoJobs no one wants? These are the jobs that the average person still needs (nevermind wants). I have been a plumbers assistant, a plumber's job is a job that could give the average person a goodlife. The problem is the rich want to pay someone as cheap as possible. Those farm workers don't even get minimum wages and live like modern day indentured slaves. Give them a FAANG salary and work culture and you will get millions applying
- dspillett 3y agoYou have conflated two of my points on jobs incorrectly. Plumbers and other such jobs are some that we currently lack the skilled people to sufficiently fill. Still. This many years after brexit. And while the working conditions of many seasonal jobs are far from good, sometimes blatantly illegal, where the jobs have been filled it is more expensively (one of the factors, a number of them due to the effects of brexit, fuelling those price rises that counter any wage rises that have happened), and where they haven't crops have gone unharvested causing waste and, surprise, fueling price rises this time due to lack of supply.
- piva00 3y agoPlumbing is not a job no one wants. Picking strawberries is. Being a bin man is. > Those farm workers don't even get minimum wages and live like modern day indentured slaves. Give them a FAANG salary and work culture and you will get millions applying Where will the money for paying those salaries come from? Of course the problem is the rich class wanting to exploit workers, that's something we know since before Marx, hence why he wrote Das Kapital...