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awkward-teabag · 9 months ago

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Of course the moment my province announces increasing the minimum wage as it's tied to inflation, people pop out of the woodwork saying that this will mean prices will go up as if there hasn't been rampant inflation already.

I'm pretty sure it's not a future $0.65 raise which was just announced that's causing you to pay dozens/hundreds extra a month on food and rent alone for the past several months if not a year or more.

Stop gnashing your teeth at people already scraping by because you "went through the same and managed" and focus that anger at the people and systems that are actually causing it.

#haven't seen any 'but think of the mom and pop stores' yet but it's only a matter of time #pretty sure the bigger impact that would help independent stores out #would be to sort out the companies that hold commercial locations #and would rather have stores/buildings be empty than rent them at a reasonable rate #also it's not the same thing because have you seen the prices lately?#the official inflation number is far lower than what people actually experience #an extra $5 a day (assuming someone can find a job that's full time)#does next to nothing when companies are allowed to increase prices willy nilly just because they can #and once again if minimum wage was the driving factor of inflation there would have been no inflation whatsoever #it's almost like companies don't actually care about it and got addicted to covid profits #and got brazen about how they don't care about anything other than getting the c-suite/shareholders more money

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