First is the false claim/thought that “cost of living will increase proportionally to wage increase.” ie if a worker is paid $100 more per month, rent, food, etc. will all increase instantly or in short order to absorb that $100 thus keeping the new higher wage earner in the same position and slightly fucking harder people above and below. Of course this ignores reality where this doesn’t happen and even if greedy landlords, etc. did attempt it… Governments have a lot of power to make them not able to do it. This is not a legitimate or logical reason to not raise wages.
The second big one is the implied fear or pressure put onto the workers who are doing ok at the moment. The right wing loves to make them fearful of the loss of their privileged positions that they “earned” in society via working hard! or whatever the fuck. Crab in a bucket mentality shit basically. There’s some crab not getting his eye stabbed out by a crab above him and other crabs suggest that they reposition slightly to stop stabbing the eyes of the lower crabs. Higher crab fears that if there is no lower crab being eye-stabbed, a position he was assured must and will always exist, then HE might be the crab to have his eye stabbed! Or at the very least he’ll be closer to eye-stabbery. So he opposes changes which he sees would be beneficial because he fears losing the position or becoming more equal. All the crabs miss the point that they are all in a bucket and will all be taken home and eaten tonight. They could pile up on side and tip the bucket to escape, destroy this bullshit bucket-system, or even just allow less cruelity, but the fear makes action feel impossible. The bucket is so heavy, they are just light little individual crabs, unorganized, eyes being smashed, or smashing eyes, and they see no way out and just want the smashed-eye crabs at the bottom to stop crying so much. Let the higher crabs enjoy the sun and slight breeze. No one can escape anyway, just accept your position, because I, the higher crab, am in a nicer position and am mostly ok with it as long as I never get my eye smashed.
They mean to imply a lot with that statement.
First is the false claim/thought that “cost of living will increase proportionally to wage increase.” ie if a worker is paid $100 more per month, rent, food, etc. will all increase instantly or in short order to absorb that $100 thus keeping the new higher wage earner in the same position and slightly fucking harder people above and below. Of course this ignores reality where this doesn’t happen and even if greedy landlords, etc. did attempt it… Governments have a lot of power to make them not able to do it. This is not a legitimate or logical reason to not raise wages.
The second big one is the implied fear or pressure put onto the workers who are doing ok at the moment. The right wing loves to make them fearful of the loss of their privileged positions that they “earned” in society via working hard! or whatever the fuck. Crab in a bucket mentality shit basically. There’s some crab not getting his eye stabbed out by a crab above him and other crabs suggest that they reposition slightly to stop stabbing the eyes of the lower crabs. Higher crab fears that if there is no lower crab being eye-stabbed, a position he was assured must and will always exist, then HE might be the crab to have his eye stabbed! Or at the very least he’ll be closer to eye-stabbery. So he opposes changes which he sees would be beneficial because he fears losing the position or becoming more equal. All the crabs miss the point that they are all in a bucket and will all be taken home and eaten tonight. They could pile up on side and tip the bucket to escape, destroy this bullshit bucket-system, or even just allow less cruelity, but the fear makes action feel impossible. The bucket is so heavy, they are just light little individual crabs, unorganized, eyes being smashed, or smashing eyes, and they see no way out and just want the smashed-eye crabs at the bottom to stop crying so much. Let the higher crabs enjoy the sun and slight breeze. No one can escape anyway, just accept your position, because I, the higher crab, am in a nicer position and am mostly ok with it as long as I never get my eye smashed.