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The mockery behind telling the low paid not to accept high pay rises. This is why all should be looking to join a trade union.

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[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we really need to call it "greedflation"? We already have a term for inflation driven by greed. Which is inflation

[–] Syldon 3 points 1 year ago

Inflation has more than just the one cause. A lot of the inflation in the UK is caused by increased transport and admin costs. That is not greed that is simply that things are more expensive to bring into the country.

In this instance the profits reaped from the current world crisis are being done for no other reason than greed while the country suffers unnecessarily. If only we had a government with a strong majority in parliament who could protect the people of this nation.

[–] FatLegTed 2 points 1 year ago

We have more than enough lamp-posts, thank you very much.