The problem isn't employers, it's employees. Let's look at the tech industry as an example. Many people try to live outside their means and expect employers to pull money out of their *****, in an economy that's really not buying the products that fund the business on a level that matches inflation, to pay for cost of living increases. Increasing the price of the product to compensate is oxymoronic when people can't afford the current prices to begin with. In the end when it reaches a boiling point, said "Indian" is willing to do the job for tens of thousands of dollars less than the American employee is demanding. So the American employee gets laid off and the Indian gets hired in his place, freeing up a substantial amount of overhead that can be further utilized to lower the price of the product, for a potential increase in sales. In the end, it's the business' survival is what's most important, and the collateral damage is that an Indian finds employment while the American is forced out, to collect Unemployment while he prays for someone else to hire him on at an over-demanding wage. Add that to the entitlement belief of many that working fast food, finding employment in the produce industry, and other "menial" jobs are beneath them and it's no wonder our country's gone to ____.
