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		NoMoreNicksLeft on May 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food ... > There’s an aversion to calculating wages based on local rent, food, and gas prices that I haven’t found an explanation for. If this is a recent development, I would say that it's just inertia against inflation. Are you saying this has been happening more than the past couple years?

gopher_space on May 22, 2024 [–]

From my perspective it’s post-pandemic behavior, but I’m just one set of eyeballs.

Inflation inertia seems reasonable but this is back of the envelope math most businesses do as a matter of course.

galdosdi on May 23, 2024 | [–]

Everyone is trying to get someone else to eat the inflation.

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