• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    Also “this economy is killing me” after they raise their fucking prices 40% in a year…

    I’ve completely abandoned some of my favourite restaurants at this point.

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      I feel like it’s this rubber band effect where everyone just overshoot everything and now refuses to bring prices down.

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      I went from eating out every single day to making everything at home for the last 4 months. Cut back on my food spending by 66%

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        Fucking grocery prices are up big time too. I like to grill Ribeyes, and the price has almost doubled. Everything has gone up, but like you said, the restaurants are even crazier. $14 at a McDonalds for a skinny guy like me? Fuck that

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          I only really eat one meal a day and it’s a big one. Would be like a 2L of soda and a large pizza or a sub and app from a restaurant. I wouldn’t have it delivered but it was easily 25 bucks a day for that one meal. Now I meal prep egg cups for breakfast and cook up a big batch of chicken tacos for the week or just make rice or salad for dinner. Grocery bills under 80$ for a week. I only have one mouth to feed though and I hate cooking.

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    Here in Texas you’ll see job posts from one clearly triggered right-wing small business owner paying $7.25 an hour, talking about how if you’re working there you’re WORKING there followed by a list of like 400 things you’ll be doing.

    This will be next to a job post from an actually sane individual that’s paying more than twice as much for 1/4th of the effort, and you’re still being overworked.

    They don’t want employees, they want indentured servants.

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      Did anybody ever “want” to work?

      If we lived in a Star Trek style utopia with replicators I wouldn’t sit around eating burgers all day and watching TV, but at the same time I wouldn’t do the job I currently have.

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        I mean there is a small percentage of people who genuinely enjoy the rewarding work they do and look forward to waking up every morning to embrace the day.

        But I do agree - sitting around getting drunk and high watching television all day long gets old REAL quick.

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    The idea of a “labor shortage” is just idiotic. The demand for goods and services is a function of the size of the population, and guess what else is? The size of the labor pool.

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    The $15.50 guy would have some people lined up. It’d be appealing for people who needed a job short term, quickly, and wanted the decreased competition for it.

    Not a bunch of people would be lined up there, but it wouldn’t be no one.

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    Something something damn millennials… I mean zoomers no one wants to work. Back in my day we had to walk 10miles up hill both ways to get to work for a dollar an hour and you didn’t see me complaining.

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        Yeah, I’m hitting them at reality now - paying more for my kid at a small State University, than I paid for Ivy League

        At the time, I could take care of it partly by myself and partly through loans that were easily affordable given my expected pay after graduation. My kid, not so much

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    The reality is that the guy on the left is $15.51/hr, then they put “competitive salary!” in the job description

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    None of the businesses in my town are offering anything higher than $12 USD an hour and then the managers will try to talk you down from that figure.

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      Probably depends on your position and academic background. What are you applying for?

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          So you are saying that you don’t know the market prices and just make up a number for an artificial job?

          I understand that you probably want to be heard but this was not a good start. Better write about your experiences instead of making something up.