Joke aside, money would trickle down when workers ensure that key markets like housing and healthcare are competitive and not take whatever wage increase there is.

[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate more on the second bit? I'm having trouble piecing it together grammatically to understand the sentence.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Housing is a sellers market where buyers compete. There needs to be a surplus of housing so that buyers can choose. Then prices fall to construction costs plus cost of management.

[–] maengooen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Money would trickle down if workers ensured that key markets like housing and healthcare were competitive, and not systems that take whatever wage increase they can get.

is my read of it