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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
neither are you...
by the statements you're making, it means that job wages won't increase at all and are flat. But they aren't. You are also implying that people cannot or are not free to look for another job that pays more. Employers are always on the lookout for better talent and must be competetive in their wages.
People also change careers because wages are attractive. In the gogo 90's people took computer courses because the demand was high. It was so high that ancillary jobs like headhunters placing them also increased.
Your statement is an old statement that seems based on the old job cradle to grave mentality of yesteryear.
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Are you saying that the solution to coping with dramatically rising prices for necessities, fuel and food, is for everyone to seek and presumably obtain, a better paying "non-union" job?
Will you concede that the possibility of doing that can only realistically be open to a small number of the workforce....less than 10 percent in the current economic environment, and, that.....for the rest, the relief is only "in the looking", the feeling that one is attempting to take control of the situation?
If not, where would the 13.5 million "better paying jobs", even for 10 percent of the US work force, to successfully follow your advice....possibly come from? The situation is aggravated more, compared to two years ago, by the illiquid housing situation, making it difficukt to sell and relocate, and the drop in the credit ratings of millions, making it difficult to pass a credit check as a condition of hire.
IMO, you're advice is a possible solution for maybe one out of twenty workers feeling the pinch. The advice to "conserve" would seem as meaningful.