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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cut CEO and Executive Pay to increase competition in the market.

Cutting minimum wage is punitive bullshit.

[–] Borkingheck@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We have to pay top wages to attract top talen you know....

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One is the free market and the other isn't.

What really needs to happen is have absolute visibility on people's wages and job advertisements.

CEOs compete on wage because they can see each others wage.

I'm not against removing the minium wage but I do support ubi in that case.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not allowed to tell my co-workers what I earn.

Of course I do anyway because what are they going to do about it? It's called Glassdoor and while its interface may be one of the worst designed websites on the internet, it is a valuable resource.

[–] BlackArtist@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Honest question, why aren't you allowed to tell your coworkers what you earn?

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And then employers moan that nobody wants to work and that young people all leave the country.

[–] snacks@feddit.uk 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

not just leave the country- leave the towns in the UK that need to catch up to retain their talent. The brain drain is real, young people leave their small towns because theres no progress or future, most go where the better paid work is. If they want to level up, cutting minimum wage is the opposite of what needs to happen

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gov has never been interested in leveling up, was and is an election strategy. Like saying you'll build 40 new hospitals when what's actually happened is some have been touched up.

[–] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

Or employing 20 000 police officers that they cut to start with

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

Just change the tax system. Have some sort if a rebate or something

Companies get 0 for all workers in London, 5% for large cities outside London, 10% for bumfuck nowhere.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 19 points 11 months ago

Every other economist thinks she's insane

[–] byroon@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why care or publicise what these morons think?

[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 13 points 11 months ago

So that people remember they are morons when it comes to a general election. Complacency will allow these thieving scumbags to come straight back into office.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Economists saw a politician with a career shorter than the lifespan of lettuce and thought "this is a person who will represent our position!"

Who is trusting or even listening to these people? Ignore any economist who doesn't use a Keysian approach.

[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago

Sunak is listening to them. This is why Hunt is proposing to give tax cuts to the well off in the next budget. We seriously could be looking at yet another UK meltdown before we can remove this lot.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago

Remember when she sent inflation skyrocketing and nearly bankrupted every pension fund in the country, sacked after 6 weeks, of which most of that was spent burying old Lizzy.

Man those were some good times.

I can only suppose that a "Truss supporting economist" is the equivalent of a fireman holding a Molotov cocktail.

[–] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, make the poors poorer, that'll surely help,

[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

You cannot have trickle down economics without having a bunch of paupers to drip money to.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Supporting Liz Truss rather cancels out the economist part.

What Truss knows about prudent economic policy would fit on the back of a postage stamp.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Miserable bastards.