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by whybroke 3570 days ago
There is no analogy to bread or 10miilon dollar salaries.

A company found something it could profit from more if it paid less than current market value. That is all. They are not saying there are no qualified applicants. They are not saying they want 10million dollars.

What is the case is that a business finds a resource (the perfect hire) that they wish to profit from but do not want to pay the market value for it because that would reduce profits. Rather than be satisfied with what would be an erosion of profit (or an admission of an unworkable business model) articles are posted to demand government pressure wages downward.

If you want a bread analogy, it's as if I found a cheap source of bread I can sell elsewhere at a profit but then complain there's a shortage solely because the cheap stuff isn't even cheaper.