Arguing with liberals about economics feels eerily similar to arguing with creationists about physical sciences
They just get so many things wrong on a fundamental level but they speak with such unearned confidence, and any evidence that goes against their worldview they dismiss out of hand as the result of a sinister conspiracy.
cw fresh liberal theory braindump:
profits are a divine construct
Hmm. Where is my eye gouging out fork I never want to read something like that again.
"Careful chief! Any price the market offers is, by definition, fair!"
commiserations, dawg
It does suck, because we were all used to getting an underpriced meal and and it sucks giving up something we are all so used to but the solution isn't to keep a flawed restaurant business culture where most fail in the first 5 years and most can't handle being shut down for a couple of weeks.the solution is to treat dining out as more of a luxury than we were previously and adapt by cooking more and what have you.
Ah yes, nothing says making sure a ton of restaurants don't collapse into bankruptcy like jacking up their prices to the point of being a luxury and suddenly realizing people don't have the disposable income for that.
Funny how this never applies to labor costs.
“You see, porky realized this whole time he was long overdue for a raise! Sorry, you’ll have less stuff because of inflation….wait, don’t ask for a raise because poor porky might have to go without! And we can’t have that!”
Funny how this never applies to labor costs.
It's infuriating trying to talk to liberals about labor as a commodity because they think everyone is on some PMC salary with benefits, not realizing people really do work minimum wage with no health insurance, vacation days, and so on. I've seen that look of "deer in headlights" too many times when I mention people bargaining for higher wages because of so-called labor shortages and it's maddening.
"No one actually makes 7.25 an hour!" repeated like gospel truth.
Literally figured this out when I got my first job