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A comment on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification. Parent comment

Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by nradov on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:47PM (#30249199)
Inflation and the national debt are way up. It might feel nice to have an extra $5K today but we increased the burden on our descendants and have nothing of lasting value to show for it. Shame on us.

No one is going to raise wages for a particular position just because it was arbitrarily classified as "critical".

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Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by aeternum on Monday February 07, 2022 @06:24PM (#30252942)
The benefit of a market economy is that if people really do consider something critical, they will pay more for it.

The increase profit margins will attract competitive companies or existing companies will be forced to pay workers more for overtime to satisfy the demand.

The negative of this is that the poor or unemployed have very few dollars with which to vote. A UBI solves this by giving them at least some small percentage of the vote.

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