Economy

Archy1221 said:
I generally enjoy discussing topics with you, but not these types of posts where you agree with me but still want to argue that I’m wrong 
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I guess the problem may be that I accept it as a given that X posts are mostly erroneous and biased one way or another. I don’t use it.

If I had a problem with what somebody was posting on X, I would reply/comment to them on X instead of dragging it into the HB P&R forum and disagreeing nonspecifically with said post. Or maybe be specific and say “no way it’s 100%”. I wouldn’t have even replied to that.

I understand the desire to discredit certain X posters that others may be using to support their claims. I guess I didn’t pick that up on this one. I read quite a bit in the P&R forum but nowhere close to all of it.

 
Corporate greed?  Sure, I mean, everyone wants to make more money, even the biggest fake "I hate capitalism" people still want more money.

But we are seeing people working at places that start off at 15-18 dollars an hour now.  4 years ago that was 7 dollars an hour.  I know we are pretending that doesn't matter but it 100% matters.

*I 100% agree that people should be getting paid more.

 
teachercd said:
Corporate greed?  Sure, I mean, everyone wants to make more money, even the biggest fake "I hate capitalism" people still want more money.

But we are seeing people working at places that start off at 15-18 dollars an hour now.  4 years ago that was 7 dollars an hour.  I know we are pretending that doesn't matter but it 100% matters.

*I 100% agree that people should be getting paid more.
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Yep. Labor cost has a lot to do with it. It’s sort of a vicious circle. Employees have to be paid more to keep up with rising costs, rinse and repeat.

I’ve given unprecedented raises to my employees over the last few years. My raw material costs have increased and labor has increased. No way I’m (the owner) going without some increases of my own if/when I can get by with it. I’m sure some small business owners aren’t in the same situation I’m in and they likely can’t enact “corporate greed” but guaranteed anyone who can is.

 
JJ Husker said:
Yep. Labor cost has a lot to do with it. It’s sort of a vicious circle. Employees have to be paid more to keep up with rising costs, rinse and repeat.

I’ve given unprecedented raises to my employees over the last few years. My raw material costs have increased and labor has increased. No way I’m (the owner) going without some increases of my own if/when I can get by with it. I’m sure some small business owners aren’t in the same situation I’m in and they likely can’t enact “corporate greed” but guaranteed anyone who can is.
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I picture you in your fancy office, a key to the VIP restroom, a big leather couch, smoking a cigar, looking out at all your worker bees, laughing as one of them comes to with some sad story about how his family is really struggling financially and you are just puffing away and laughing.  

Hahaha!

But, like you said, with the raises.  s#!t has been crazy.  You can come out of UNL as a first year teacher making over 50k a year now.

22 years old, making over 50...mix in coaching two sports and you are at 60K.  Teacher summer school for 6 weeks, 64K.

 
JJ Husker said:
If I had a problem with what somebody was posting on X, I would reply/comment to them on X instead of dragging it into the HB P&R forum and disagreeing nonspecifically with said post. Or maybe be specific and say “no way it’s 100%”. I wouldn’t have even replied to that.
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I didn’t bring that X post into Huskerboard just to disagree with it.  In fact I didn’t bring that X post into HB at all.   It once it was in HB and shown to be be complete Bulls#!t, I find it ok to point that stuff out.   And I did say no way was it 100%, like you just asked.  I even agreed that corporate greed did account for some.  
 

 
teachercd said:
I picture you in your fancy office, a key to the VIP restroom, a big leather couch, smoking a cigar, looking out at all your worker bees, laughing as one of them comes to with some sad story about how his family is really struggling financially and you are just puffing away and laughing.  

Hahaha!

But, like you said, with the raises.  s#!t has been crazy.  You can come out of UNL as a first year teacher making over 50k a year now.

22 years old, making over 50...mix in coaching two sports and you are at 60K.  Teacher summer school for 6 weeks, 64K.
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Apparently I really really need to post some pics of my office and the “executive” restroom. You will then wonder how I manage to get out of bed and actually go to work.

Hint- my wife won’t use our restroom and she is constantly telling me I need to do something about my office  :lol:

 
Archy1221 said:
I didn’t bring that X post into Huskerboard just to disagree with it.  In fact I didn’t bring that X post into HB at all.   It once it was in HB and shown to be be complete Bulls#!t, I find it ok to point that stuff out.   And I did say no way was it 100%, like you just asked.  I even agreed that corporate greed did account for some.  
 
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My bad. I did not notice that you were replying to an X post someone else made. My apologies. 

 
Archy1221 said:
I didn’t bring that X post into Huskerboard just to disagree with it.  In fact I didn’t bring that X post into HB at all.   It once it was in HB and shown to be be complete Bulls#!t, I find it ok to point that stuff out.   And I did say no way was it 100%, like you just asked.  I even agreed that corporate greed did account for some.  
 
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I'm the one that posted the tweet to point out that corporate greed was part of inflation.  You decided to take a few words out of the entire thing and claim it makes the whole premise BS.  Which...I call BS.

Corporate greed was part of inflation and it needs to be pointed out.  I saw it in our own industry.  Our raw material suppliers raised prices to levels we have never seen before.  Quite frankly, they were twice as high as they had ever been.  Meanwhile, their inputs are easy for me to check prices on and they didn't go up anywhere close to that.  Meanwhile, these companies are publicly traded and I can see specifically into our segment of their business and see they were making record profits.  THAT was corporate greed.  Sure, the tweet said it was 100%.  I don't agree with that part.  But, it was a part of the problem and this article points out how it was in the grocery business.  There has been quite a bit of talk on here about how horrible grocery prices are and blaming it all on Biden.  Well.....I don't agree with that.

 
BigRedBuster said:
You decided to take a few words out of the entire thing and claim it makes the whole premise BS.  Which...I call BS.
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Where exactly did I claim the whole premise was BS?   Please quote so we can all see you backup your claim.

Was it when you agreed with me in your above post that your X poster was wrong on her 100% assessment?  
 

Or was it when you agreed with me that corporate greed played a role, of which I and others here think it’s more of a minor role, in inflationary pressure?      
 

Just let me know which of the two things you agreed with me on were BS :thumbs

 
Archy1221 said:
Where exactly did I claim the whole premise was BS?   Please quote so we can all see you backup your claim.

Was it when you agreed with me in your above post that your X poster was wrong on her 100% assessment?  
 

Or was it when you agreed with me that corporate greed played a role, of which I and others here think it’s more of a minor role, in inflationary pressure?      
 

Just let me know which of the two things you agreed with me on were BS :thumbs
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The post I quoted where you talked about the tweet and said it was complete BS. I took that as meaning the entire premise in the tweet. If not, then I understand you worded it poorly. 
 

We can agree that corporate greed was part of it. It’s worth pointing out when it happens. I think it’s very difficult telling what percentage was based on that. Obviously, the entire pressure of inflation was set in motion in 2020 when the pandemic hit. That’s why it was world wide. 
 

I’m just glad the US has handled it better than everywhere else. I read today that it’s down to 2% and the feds should start cutting rates. That’s a great thing and most countries are not where we are. 
 

Thanks Joe. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
The post I quoted where you talked about the tweet and said it was complete BS. I took that as meaning the entire premise in the tweet. If not, then I understand you worded it poorly. 
 

We can agree that corporate greed was part of it. It’s worth pointing out when it happens. I think it’s very difficult telling what percentage was based on that. Obviously, the entire pressure of inflation was set in motion in 2020 when the pandemic hit. That’s why it was world wide. 
 

I’m just glad the US has handled it better than everywhere else. I read today that it’s down to 2% and the feds should start cutting rates. That’s a great thing and most countries are not where we are. 
 

Thanks Joe. 
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Here’s my post again since you didn’t really read it the first time.  I think you will notice the words “complete BS” or “complete bulls#!t appear”.   You took non-existent words, blame me for a lie you posted from someone else, then when that failed, now try to blame me for wording something poorly with words I didn’t even use  :laughpound

To top it all off, you finally agreed with my actual take on the matter :facepalm:  …which is 

Yes corporate greed played a bit of a role hear but it was not the larger role, or medium sized role, nor was it one of the root causes.  

“Is there a certain reason she doesn’t actually link to the article?   I’m guessing because her first paragraph doesn’t match up with the wording under the headline of the NYT piece, but it could also be something else.   It may have to do with her knowing people will not actually do the work to find the article and then read it vs just react to her take of the article and not decide for themselves what to think.   
 

I’d bet a large percentage of the population agrees that business greed played a part in inflation but even more of the population if not 99% who pay attention would know it’s not 100% corporate greed like that doofus on X wants to believe”

 
Archy1221 said:
Here’s my post again since you didn’t really read it the first time.  I think you will notice the words “complete BS” or “complete bulls#!t appear”.   You took non-existent words, blame me for a lie you posted from someone else, then when that failed, now try to blame me for wording something poorly with words I didn’t even use  :laughpound

To top it all off, you finally agreed with my actual take on the matter :facepalm:  …which is 

Yes corporate greed played a bit of a role hear but it was not the larger role, or medium sized role, nor was it one of the root causes.  

“Is there a certain reason she doesn’t actually link to the article?   I’m guessing because her first paragraph doesn’t match up with the wording under the headline of the NYT piece, but it could also be something else.   It may have to do with her knowing people will not actually do the work to find the article and then read it vs just react to her take of the article and not decide for themselves what to think.   
 

I’d bet a large percentage of the population agrees that business greed played a part in inflation but even more of the population if not 99% who pay attention would know it’s not 100% corporate greed like that doofus on X wants to believe”
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No, that’s not the post I’m talking about. Nice try. 

 
People need to stop using the word greed unless you mean it in a good way.

Your business is not in business to break even.  Your business is in business to make as much as possible to still keep customers.  Period.  End of story.    You might cut deals here and there or give discounts or help out good customers, which is smart.  But your business is not a non-profit.  

Your job in your business is to make as much as you can, my job as a consumer is to save as much as I can.




 
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