1. La desconexión entre el crecimiento salarial y el aumento de precios.
Existe una fuerte controversia sobre si los incrementos en los sueldos nominales son suficientes para compensar el encarecimiento general de la vida, con muchos ciudadanos reportando una pérdida neta de poder de compra.
- Let me do the math for you, chief. Even if the median wage was 100k its not, 1,200 wage growth is only 1.2. And the median wage is substantially less than 100,00. So, no, wages arent keeping up with inflation.
- Wage growth for those who didnt change jobs was 3.8, or just .8 after inflation. That basically is stagnant. The inflation of a few years ago was crushing.
- Wages have gone up. When you ask people what they make, the numbers have increased over time. They have also increased faster than inflation.
2. El impacto crítico de la vivienda, salud y alimentos.
Los participantes señalan que los índices de inflación general no reflejan adecuadamente el aumento desproporcionado en sectores esenciales como la vivienda y la atención médica, que consumen la mayor parte del presupuesto familiar.
- From the research ive seen, it confirms that median wages have kept up with general inflation. However, it has not kept up with housing and healthcare inflation. Thats where people really feel it.
- Real wage growth doesnt account for different rates of inflation in different sectors, where for example inflation in housing, education, healthcare, and childcare have far surpassed wage growth.
- Our rent, electric and groceries rapidly outpaced our wages and we had to stop getting take out entirely a couple of years ago.
3. Psicología económica y la percepción de la "Vibecession".
El informe destaca un fenómeno psicológico donde los trabajadores atribuyen sus aumentos salariales al mérito personal, mientras ven la inflación como un factor externo injusto que les arrebata sus logros.
- People tend to treat wage increases as due to their own effort, not inflation, so an equal increase in wages and prices is interpreted as inflation reducing their standard of living.
- As paul krugman says, people feel they earned their wage increase, but then others took this away with inflation. It does not matter if wage growth exceeds inflation, this sense of loss has the greater impact to the vibes.
- I mean feeling better off and being better off can be quite different. People dislike inflation especially fast inflation even if wage growth outpaces it.
4. El papel de las ganancias corporativas y la desigualdad.
Una parte significativa de la discusión se centra en la "greedflation" o inflación impulsada por la búsqueda de beneficios récord, argumentando que la riqueza se está concentrando en la cima mientras la clase trabajadora se estanca.
- At some point we really need to stop calling corporate greed inflation. When its actually inflation those corporations dont post record profits. Ceos dont get massive bonuses.
- Most of the inflation is extra profits. Wages have not substantially gone up in decades. None of these things have changed. Theyre just squeezing more profits out of the consumer.
- The 1ers have been rigging the system step by step for 70 years. They have kept wages stagnant in relation to inflation.
5. La necesidad de cambios estructurales y sindicalización.
Ante la crisis de asequibilidad, surge un llamado a la acción colectiva y a la implementación de políticas que vinculen obligatoriamente los salarios con el costo de vida real.
- Wages arent keeping up with inflation. Labor unions built the middle class. With labor unions on the decline, the middle class is being hollowed out.
- Get together with your coworkers and demand sliding scale wages so your income matches inflation rates. Eu employees have it. France and italy had it.
- If corporations know that if they charge more, they have to pay their workers more, inflation comes to a screeching halt!