It was inevitable. Also those new pokemon designs are fucking garbage
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Long hours and low pay (leading to home stress which means you don't get to burn out your work stress) are origin point issues. If those are weighing you down, the pizza won't do much beyond bandaid it for a few days, if it doesn't feel downright insulting. Which means the job will need weekly pizza, which then diminishes its special feel and its back to square one except now the company is out a few hundred a week.
So, while its great for getting through temporary tough times (like a seasonal rush or a huge contract), it won't fix major systemic issues regardless of how dumb the worker is.
The problem is that most people who are underpaid aren't aware that they're underpaid: that the person next to them that was hired 2 years after them is getting paid 20% more for the same work, despite less experience.
And both of them are still underpaid.
In terms of their actual value and what they should be paid they won't know. All they will know is that they can't afford increasingly more things they feel they should be able to, including basic bills.
Which is the growing reality for a lot of people as inflation continues to move massively out of control while most jobs have remained quite stagnant relatively.
This is an especially large issue in cities, especially near the coasts.
Its definitely going to reach a breaking point at some point, but I'm wondering when its going to happen, and what's going to happen after.
I think we need to revisit that little bit of legislative change that happened under Reagan, IIRC, which allowed that divergence in company profit and employee pay to grow unchecked.
I'm already seeing it break small term in both former jobs and my current. An older one recently had to do inflation adjustment and basically raised the wages of the entire bottom half of the company by 3-5$ across the board because post Covid was seeing them have full shutdowns because they couldn't replace what they lost.
I think once they begin to fully automate out entry level work will be when we start to see the larger breaking point, where either we go full retard with UBI or major corporations start seeing actual revolts on a scale too large to quell.