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Oh, gosh. This thread.
There's some stuff like furniture and desktop computers that I don't buy that often but the last few times I went to a store looking for it... at stores *dedicated* to these things... and what I found, or didn't find, made no sense.
It's tis.
There's some stuff like furniture and desktop computers that I don't buy that often but the last few times I went to a store looking for it... at stores *dedicated* to these things... and what I found, or didn't find, made no sense.
It's tis.
Supposedly raising wages is going to drive up the cost of doing business is going to put everybody out of business is going to cost everybody their jobs...
But stagnant wages at below-subsistence levels is rotting businesses from the inside out anyway.
Business needs customers.
But stagnant wages at below-subsistence levels is rotting businesses from the inside out anyway.
Business needs customers.
Employers don't create jobs, customers create jobs. Employers -- ideally -- create customers, by PAYING people. Henry Ford wasn't a saint, he was a robber baron like the rest of them. But he was a smart one. He overpaid his employees, and got rich doing it.
Here's how it works: money is always going to come to rest in the hands of the people who control the means of production. Always. Because they're the last stop on any chain of deals. They can pay out a fortune and they'll get it all back.
But decades of conservative mythmaking about "trickle down" and "job creators" and a frankly video game view of economics that acts like money that is spent just disappears has got our economy moving in one direction. Money's not circulating. It just goes upward.
The absolute best thing you can do for the economy is put money at the bottom. Trickle down doesn't work but a rising tide does in fact lift all boats.
Things rise from the bottom up.
Things rise from the bottom up.
We need businesses to pay more wages, to pay more taxes. We need government to give more relief to the poor and working class. There's got to be money circulating. "The rich will invest it in businesses!" That's great, if anyone has money to buy products and services from them.
