Seattle continues efforts to kill jobs...

Dupe of what I posted in paladin's thread, but this is better here:

OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooo this just in

Employers pay shit because they don't want to raise all their employees' wages. Has fuck-all to do with "free markets." Nobel Awarded.

Or listen if you're reading disabled (jump to 2:30 if you're easily bored).
https://www.marketplace.org/2021/10...-testing-econ-101-theories-in-the-real-world/

employers are "willing to put up with vacancies in return for keeping wages lower on their current employees." @ 3:30

"Employers set wages, they aren't set by some abstract market". @4:30

holy fuck? CBRE is international now?

they already own half of Toronto.

Yep, Abbott Laboratories contracts with their offices here in Lake County Illinois. Possibly AbbVie, too. But, not to the same extent.

So, people doing my job that stayed with Abbott, lost their jobs to CBRE, then had to train CBRE to do their job during the transition. After the transition, they were offered the same job for less pay and no benefits.

But, hey, Paladin is fine with that, so ... it must be ok.

Kind of confused how there's a transition from a lab to a real estate company (CBRE)? Although it wouldn't shock me that they're diversified in that regard either.

still, they've been a named party in at least a quarter of residential reno-victions I know of the past few years.

They also have a division that does transactional work and data processing. I also wondered about the real estate/data thing. But ... look at Monsanto - they make poisons and grow our food. God only knows why corporations buy other corporations, but they do.

Wait, if Citizens United postulates corporations are people, and if buying people is illegal because ownership of people is illegal, then corporations buying each other out should therefore be illegal...

Is it weird that not only do I understand that, but agree with it?

I think it's weirder we can find a useful use for Citizens United

"Won"? Was it a game show?

"Won"? Was it a battle?

What's your point?

Yes. They were tempted by the new washer-and-dryer set, but figured the old ones still had several years of life left in them.

Could have been that, or they knew that they should always switch doors.

The whole world was waiting behind door number 3.

They've been everywhere - North America, Europe - for some time now. I know some brokers who work for them in Vancouver, total douchebags but they always have good blow so........

Those job killers just won't learn: they keep trying to kill jobs by raising wages and it just doesn't work. Isn't that the definition of insanity?

How many of those people were actually qualified?

Irrelevant obsfucation.

Right. What does merit have to do with what you DESERRRVE?

Probably more than 72. What's your point?

You appear to be replying to an assertion that exists only in your head.

The point is that any monkey can fill out an application.

Are you willing to literally test that?

You know what I mean, don't be dumb.

And you know full well what Dan Price meant as well.
BTW, you haven't answered my question in the OSHA thread

I agree that we had a labor shortage due in part because people got fed up with low wages and I got a raise as a result of it, but I don’t think that’s the only reason we had a labor shortage. I also think he’s being disingenuous with the point he’s trying to make.