Leaked Microsoft memo tells managers not to use budget cuts as an explainer for lack of pay rises: ‘Reinforce that every year offers unique opportunity for impact’::Managers are being ordered to dodge employees’ questions about how the latest budget cuts will impact their pay.
How did big tech companies got like these? Bigger cut for owners? I remember when a person got a job in Microsoft, Google, etc, it meant that they were financial stable in a good job that didn’t drain all of their energy. We need tech more than ever now. Is it because there are so many devs these days? AI? All these things all together?
Free investor money ran out with the higher interest rates. The higher interest rates that were made to combat inflation, which again are mostly because of corporate greed.
Basically wages were going up, workers were getting a bigger slice of the pie against corporate profits - not that profits were dropping mind you, just not going up as fast as wages for a bit. So corporations as a block decided that the shock from supply chain distruptions means they get to raise prices. Somehow supply chain disruptions didn’t show up on the bottom line though, so they got to make record profit, but we got record inflation. The gutted governments instead of taxing the windfall profits, because they can’t do that because politics, were just watching as central banks increased interest rates that clobbered wages back.
It’s just the system in action, when the 200 oligarchs holding the reins in America decide the workers of the “free world” have a bit too much, they crank up prices, which decreases wages even beyond the effect of said price increases.
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Citation needed.
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Citation needed to show that we can’t curb inflation by taxing the wealthy but that the only way is to tax low wage workers more.
But let’s say you do provide a citation that proves taxing the poor, as close to death as possible, is the only way to make capitalism continue working - then I’d say let’s eat the rich because their promises of a better life are only meant for themselves.
More money in the hands of working class people + equal or less of working class goods = essentials worth more
The problem would be that working class people need different stuff than rich people spend/invest a bulk of their money on. If a billionaire can’t afford a yacht or a mansion that won’t effect the price of bread or single family homes if the working class still has an inflated money supply.
I’m not an economists, nor do I have the solutions to any problems, but I think the above concept is pretty set in stone.
Or maybe instead of building a yacht they would build more public housing. If the workers could decide between the two, then I would think there would be more homes and less mega yachts.
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This is capitalism working as intended.