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Increasing prices, even before the inflationary pressure caused by outside forces in the last year or so, have more than eaten any increase on average salary. The extra jobs vacated by EU citizens we've made officially less welcome are mostly jobs people don't want so instead of increased employment we've got seasonal work & other "unskilled" work not being done, and low paid but high stress jobs (nursing care etc.) also going unfilled. Other vacant jobs are in areas we have not yet made up the skills shortfall in (have you tried to get a plumber in recently?).
The wealthier "class" is doing perfectly fine and knew they would be, that is why so many of them told big porkies to convince others to vote that way.
Plumbers and other such jobs are some that we currently lack the skilled people to sufficiently fill. Still. This many years after brexit.
And while the working conditions of many seasonal jobs are far from good, sometimes blatantly illegal, where the jobs have been filled it is more expensively (one of the factors, a number of them due to the effects of brexit, fuelling those price rises that counter any wage rises that have happened), and where they haven't crops have gone unharvested causing waste and, surprise, fueling price rises this time due to lack of supply.
> Those farm workers don't even get minimum wages and live like modern day indentured slaves. Give them a FAANG salary and work culture and you will get millions applying
Where will the money for paying those salaries come from?
Of course the problem is the rich class wanting to exploit workers, that's something we know since before Marx, hence why he wrote Das Kapital...
https://obr.uk/box/the-outlook-for-household-income-and-cons...
If everyone including corporation's wealth were equally shared then yes you are correct. But in reality it's the opposite.
If the rich could import unlimited people wages would go to almost nothing. The economy would grow because the country as a whole would grow. But it makes the average person worse off.
In any case, feel free to provide your alternative analysis.
It's why few on here get projects from upwork. A select few can specialize and demand US market rates while most compete with individuals happy to make $5 US an hour.
Growing the economy doesn't mean it is going to trickle to the poorest. Often a country with a high growth rate has a large divide between rich and poor. Often a slower growth country funnels that wealth to the lowest in society.
Statements that can be made without good evidence can be rightly dismissed just as easily.
Costing the UK overall $178bn is going to harm us all in the long run, so the initial article is your starter for ten.
If you want us to give a reasoned counter to your position, you first need to properly describe your position. Spouting “well you haven't cited sources either” when we ask you to cite sources is playground stuff, in a similar vein: show us yours and we'll show you ours. If you make claims and refuse to substantiate them, then complain that a counter isn't sufficiently substantiated, it isn't us that looks like they don't know how to properly discus things.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/933075/wage-growth-in-th...
> While wages are currently growing at a relatively fast pace, high inflation is currently cancelling this growth out, leading to the negative growth in real terms throughout 2022 and early 2023. Although it is likely that UK inflation peaked in October 2022, at 11.1 percent it has yet to fall below double figures as of March 2023. Forecasts from the Spring 2023 budget predict that the annual UK inflation will average out at 6.1 percent in 2023, before falling to 0.9 percent in 2024. Falling wages is just one of the aspects of the current Cost of Living Crisis, which has led to the steepest fall in living standards in a generation