It’s almost as if people pointed out that raising the minimum wage will result in higher costs for everything and thus raising the cost of living.
Hey you get a hundred more bucks a week? Guess what your rents going up fifry dollars a week.
Sounds great but groceries rise cost twenty more a month because they are paying their people more. Gas goes up… And everything else costs “just a bit more” because of rising costs for the new minimum wage.
Maybe the solution isn’t to get more money but stop acting like everyone who decides to move to California deserves a charmed life. In the supply and demand metric for jobs California seems to be fine with increasing the supply of workers with out realizing that has caused most of the problems we have. Sorry but just like the game industry until people stop wanting to come out to California with out a job lined up ultimately there’s going to be problem.
Btw I’m definitely not talking about immigration with this I’m talking about someone from Kansas deciding to come out to California for what ever reason, something not working and then bitching that they can’t stay here on a minimum wage salary and afford a single room apartment.
Maybe if that’s the case going back to Kansas which has a better cost of living is a better choice than trying to live in a city or state with the highest cost of living?
Not everyone has to leave to fix this but until at least some people leave the scale will continue to tip against everyone in the state because the surplus of people only raise the supply on people looking for jobs, raise the demand on housing which increase rent and this will continue until this idea that there’s a guaranteed perfect Californian life exists for anyone who comes out here is dead