15 March

You hear the argument a lot, that employers can’t afford to pay higher wages. But wages are just like any other business expense. You can factor them in. What they really mean is they don’t want to pay people more, because it eats into their cut of the business income. If a business can’t afford to pay people properly, it’s a shit business run by people who can’t run a business. That was the metric a generation ago, before we all got some sort of collective lobotomy. It actually was, underpaying your staff used to be a seen as a sign of incompetence.