Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
by linuxftw on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:19AM
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Well, the labor force has finally decided they're not going to do hard work for starvation wages. The guys running the companies have increased prices, but haven't sent that money down to the labor force. I have a friend that's a plumber, he easily makes his company $450k/yr in billable services, he's making less than $30/hr.
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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
by acdha on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:46AM
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Yeah, between active wage theft and the growing profit-taking I’m not surprised that the union movement is stronger than it’s been in my lifetime. I don’t know your friend but I know a bunch of people like him.
Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
by MichaelZuo on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @10:06AM
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Sounds like an excellent opportunity for your friend to start his own plumbing company with some other disgruntled plumbers, and offer lower rates too to happy homeowners.
Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
by mrguyorama on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:56PM
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The most important part is that these were not starvation wages in the 80s!
People used to pay american employees enough to survive, thrive, and even support local businesses that didn't have to crush their margins to 2% to compete with walmart.
The reason everything sucks is because americans have only cared about "sticker price" in comparison shopping for decades, and I posit that's mostly because the american income has spent the past several decades being cut in half simply because employers didn't pay people.