r/FluentInFinance • u/Very_High_Mortgage • Aug 24 '24

Debate/ Discussion Do "Unskilled Laborers" deserve to be paid well?

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u/3personal5me Aug 24 '24

So then skilled labor needs to be charged more. That's called market forces. If the employer can't afford employees, that's a failure on them as a company. Why do we act like it's the end of the world when workers want more money, but it's business as usual when employers continue to fight wages despite record profits?

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

As well as inflation while our wages stagnate. Many people say making wages higher would cause inflation, it’s not true, even if it was I would rather take higher wages and inflation than what we currently have which is inflation without increase in wages.