Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?
by douche on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:06PM
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I'm not sure that's the whole picture. For instance, in many European cities, I can get a better quality product for $5 at a corner shop than I can for $35 at some artisanal hipster place here in the States. It's one of the things I love about visiting Berlin; I've never eaten simultaneously so well and so cheaply.
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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?
by clock_tower on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:28PM
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To think that people yell at me when I say that the US's higher-than-Europe GDP doesn't mean that the US has a higher quality of life...
Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?
by jessaustin on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:28PM
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Haha yelling is a sign of confusion...
Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?
by clock_tower on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:22PM
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Good point! People -- including people who should really know better, like government economists -- have been sold GDP as the economy's high score. (Think of Il Sorpasso, when Italy's GDP first passed England's.) It was never intended as more than a best guess, and is one of the many temporary measures for WWII that are still with us today...