The way I saw someone put it once is “’inflation’ is just another word for corporations protecting their profit margins.”

Getting a trucker an extra $1000 on a container ship full of t-shirts shouldnt significantly raise the price of the shirts. A few cents, if that. 

You know inflated profit margins are a thing, right? It’s not like the execs are really worth their 7 figure compensation.

This is literally the argument I use to argue for minimum wage increases. Once we see the cost of living decrease as a country, I'll stop using it. So far, nope

or maybe ,just maybe corporations reduce their expectations for net income... nahh its just a pipe dream

You know, that whole “expect to pay for more” shit sounds like a reasonable argument...until you realize -prices never go down in the first place-

I’m dropping out of healthcare as we speak. They’re still trying to pay CNAs McDonald’s wages and wondering why the floor is 2/3 agency. My wife could make 200 bucks a day more at the same place, same shift, if she booked independently via the NURSA ap. 

Yeah, it’s this whole new-age fascination with making everybody an “independent contractor” to avoid providing regular pay or benefits. It’s complete and utter bullshit, and now we’re starting to see it all fall apart.

globe spanning industries exist to obfuscate who is getting that money and how much

Bullshit. Worker productivity is way up in the last fifty years, but their portion of the earnings way down.  The bloat is with the parasites skimming all the cream, and that's where it needs to be taken back from. 'Same as it ever was.'

Fuck this. Every other first world country has no problem paying workers fair wages and costs are far from higher. I can go to Europe and make 22 bucks an hour working at McDonalds with 5 weeks paid vacations and better benefits, and the cost for the food is roughly the same

He’s the weirdest person on here, and that’s saying a lot.

What is the ever loving fuck do they have to do with the problem?

2. The ways truckers get screwed also extend far beyond port wait times. Industry deregulation, the increased use of independent truckers who are paid by the load, and the expectations that can push truckers to drive longer days than are legally allowed. And the patchwork of companies, individuals, teamsters, etc.…

Biden and the idiots in Congress

It won’t. And scale for most things dictates a lot of manufacturing would need to be centralized somewhere, requiring transport.

Not to mention the endless shifting of risk to the workers. No we won’t cover your reasonable expenses. You work for yourself, not us so you figure it out. This isn’t unique to trucking either. You’re right. If they keep screwing the little guy over and over, they’ll be lucky if all they do is walk away.

You replied to the wrong thing, and probably misreading the intent of the headline. 

It’s the same across all professions, from warehouses to engineers, SOMEBODY is making a lot of money but it sure as hell isn’t the average worker.

I don’t know who I heard say it, but they said it best, “Employers love to talk supply and demand until it comes to labor.”