overseas economies. I do feel for these places, it's got to be a challenge to live in such times, when you literally don't know what costs will be until you grab the item and check it out in order to pay for it...it probably went up while you had the item in your shopping cart! That's bad indeed.
The one thing that I do see on a positive note, is that wages, real wages are now free of the republican stranglehold and real wages are going up, because the marketplace, because of tight supplies of labor, is forced to finally pay decent salaries. Finally!
Of course, wage increases are going to be uneven across the Country, but I think if a smart business wants to get workers, they are going to have to pay, and pay more.
I still see some small businesses moaning about paying higher wages, but I think that they are getting slammed right and left, especially when the easy solution is to simply give your workers better pay. I guess in the real world of business, they only think of keeping wages down while absorbing all of the increases in raw materials, etc. that have happened over the past decades (and yet no increases in wages). This seems to fit a certain category of business type, I wonder if anyone has done a study on it, I'd be interested in reading it.
Anyways, I think that businesses w/ this sort of negative attitudes about worker pay is going to suffer or go out of business, since they don't seem to truly appreciate their workers (and ironically enough, the workers know this too, by now, due to COVID).
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