It's so funny to talk to people who run and own local businesses who, in the same rant, complain about how businesses are unfairly profiting by charging unreasonable prices and that it's impossible to hire because you'd have to pay people a wage that makes your business barely profitable if you don't want to be shorthanded with overworked staff
Of course these are technically reconcilable, but the people I've heard this rant from would clearly raise prices if they had the market power to do so,
Ah, the classic case of contradictory business complaints. It's truly a masterpiece in irony! Complaining about businesses profiting while dreaming of having that market power to raise prices themselves. It's like wanting to have your cake and eat it too, but then complaining about the price of cake ingredients. Well, at least they're consistent in their inconsistency!
so the difference isn't due to any kind of moral position. Instead, it's merely a gap in the level of success, which the person is attempting to close.
Tonight's rant was from someone who runs multiple car dealerships, which gives you a level of income that's good even by BigCo tech standards.
After complaining about prices and giving the standard "no one can hire because the labor market is a mess" statement, they went into detail about the situation and it's even worse than the summary.
