{"id":114717,"date":"2023-06-06T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/op-ed-same-job-same-pay-storm-of-protest-from-ultra-rich-employers\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:15:28","slug":"op-ed-same-job-same-pay-storm-of-protest-from-ultra-rich-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/op-ed-same-job-same-pay-storm-of-protest-from-ultra-rich-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: \u2019Same job, same pay\u2019 storm of protest from ultra-rich employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114717\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMillions of Australians either are using or should be using food banks. Prices are rising hideously. The theory that if you do the same job you should get the same pay is apparently too much for Australian employers. Record profits mean nothing when it comes to someone getting a few bucks more. This grotesque situation comes about after decades of conservative handouts to businesses. Handouts to profitable energy companies, mining companies, and anyone who\u2019d like a few more yachts. Wages spent 12 years well below the cost of living increase, but this wage proposal is somehow a crisis for the extremely rich.<\/p>\n<p>There are serious existential threats to the sanctity of this affluent doll\u2019s house. Someone might accidentally earn enough more per year for the sort of long lunch most executives seem to like on a daily basis. It\u2019s awful, you know. Quality of life definitely isn\u2019t an issue in this environment. It\u2019s even been suggested that people should \u201ceconomize\u201d with housing to save money by clustering neurotically together in overpriced homes. Would have been great during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>This is true heresy in a country where a house, job, and family were the benchmark for so many years. Lately, though, the slum-worshipping economics have been trying to turn the world into a gigantic Air B&amp;B, so obviously that\u2019s OK. What do people want more money for, anyway? They\u2019d only spend it on food and shelter. \u2026And ridiculous education fees, health costs, absurd multimillion-dollar prices for a bit of drywall with a roof on it, etc. The reality is that it\u2019s not about what something is worth that you\u2019re paying for. It\u2019s what you can be gouged to pay for it. Therefore Australians don\u2019t need money at all, let alone any sort of rational theory of wages.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is often called the Lucky Country, with good reason. You\u2019d have to be lucky to put together any sort of life in this travesty of a mindset. Decades of illiterate cronyism and Thatcherism have created a world of privatized, deregulated, Haves and Never-Will-Haves. The next two generations of Australians, Millennials and Gen Z, will probably never be able to afford anything thanks to you. Happy?<\/p>\n<p>You remember those business degrees you\u2019re supposed to have? Basic business economics states that when prices go insane, people need money and credit gets tough. The sky is also blue and the grass is green, in case you were wondering. If you\u2019re talking incentives, you\u2019re kidding. Many people are having to do multiple jobs to make ends not meet at all. Any theories on the reason for that? Could it be they don\u2019t get paid enough in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Whining about wages is an admission of defeat. If you\u2019re an employer, you should be able to calculate wage costs in less than a second. You should also be able to project costs just as easily. If you can\u2019t manage costs on your own business plan, what the hell are you doing in business? You could sit in a tree and make chirping noises.<\/p>\n<p>Some costs, like electricity, have gone up over 100% despite massive input from solar. \u2026And nobody needs a viable wage? Raising prices is the definitive form of lack of talent. It reduces capital inflow and excludes an increasing percentage of the market. News Corp in the form of The Australian newspaper (paywall on the link) has predictably come out in favor of the employers. They were pro-Trump and QAnon for a while, too.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the \u201cfinancial misery index\u201d is up 220%. Could that possibly affect business? Might it be that the food bank situation means something? Australia doesn\u2019t have to pay for you miserly freeloading bastards. This is a situation you created. You can go broke, too. Any questions?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/op-ed-same-job-same-pay-storm-of-protest-from-ultra-rich-employers\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/op-ed-same-job-same-pay-storm-of-protest-from-ultra-rich-employers\/\">Op-Ed: \u2019Same job, same pay\u2019 storm of protest from ultra-rich employers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[915,2839,7402,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-114717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-job","tag-pay","tag-same","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}