Quote Originally Posted by Dubbag View Post
Thatcher murdered strikes.
Now if your billionaire employer doesn't want to pay well, your option is to **** off.
We have had it too good and cheap for too long....
People expect everything to be dirt cheap.
Well the party is over and the minimum wage just not going to cut it any more not when directors are still getting headline grabbing pay awards but workers....you have to make do with a 1% pay rise?
Are you for real?
If somebody wants to pay a coffee pourer £25 an hour then they can sell their coffee at higher price. As 68 says...bring a flask.
Below too many people's station this day and age...
“Too good for too long” is so very true Dubs but the average person doesn’t realise this.

I’ll give you some examples from my own place in the sports trade.

When I started work at Dunlop Rackets in 1991 you could buy a basic alloy tennis racket for £15 and the most expensive alloy model was £40, it didn’t sell though because it was a rip off.

The average selling price of an alloy was £25.

Move forward three decades up until the last year or so and you could still buy an adult alloy for less than £20 and the average selling price was still £25.

There had been almost no product inflation in 30 years.

It was the same on graphite models and in fact the average selling price of £50 in1991 had probably dropped, you could still buy a graphite for under £50 in 2021.

It’s the same across my industry, football boot prices had stayed pretty static over that period unless you wanted the latest Nike Air Zoom or top Adidas Predator models.

My wage for being a rep in 1991 was £12k a year.

So the average U.K. wage by 2021 was double what I was earning 30 years ago yet many of the products were the same sort of retail price.

Covid has brought a rebalancing of things.

People think China has had us by the balls for 40 years but that wasn’t the case until now.

We constantly were able to keep China producing at low cost with minimal rises year after year and able to continuously squeeze prices down.

Same on shipping containers.

China now has the same problem that we in the U.K. have in that their younger generation are no longer willing to do the factory production jobs to make the products.

The people that do want more money, better conditions and a bit of a life rather than working 6 1/2 days a week for $200 a month whilst billeted in Nissan huts and only going back to their home villages once a year during Chinese New Year.

Across Europe we constantly b I t c h about prices nowadays yet our throw away lifestyle has been built off the back of people who’ve had no life at all for 40 years.

Chickens are now home to roost.

The moral behind this story is actually that you don’t need the latest iPhone every time it comes out or to change your car every year or your tennis racket if I’m bringing things closer to home.

People need to be more thoughtful about their purchases and more thrifty and wear or use things for an extra year or two.

It’s all “me, me, me” in our society.

Somewhere deep in China, India, Vietnam there’s some poor b a s t a r d who would love to earn £15 an hour to pour a cup of f u c k I n g coffee or £11 an hour to load luggage.