Originally Posted by rmr1992

This is just plain silly. I never sided with the company and I never said they couldn't afford it. Read the whole post. A doubling of the current average salary is simply unrealistic no matter how much we stomp our feet, kick and scream or act like fools on social media. Just ain't gonna happen. You are naive to believe we will get everything that we want and they have to just figure it out. Life, negotiations and business just simply don't work that way. Is that the way you handle your personal finances? "Hey honey, buy what you want, when the bills come in I'll just figure it out..." I doubt it. So what makes you believe that's the way they will handle their finances? Moreover the "pass it on to the customer" thing sounds really good except that the current customers are all already signed to long term deals, cuz that's the business model, and certainly won't renegotiate their deals simply because the company signed a deal with us. Again I ask, would you? No you wouldn't. If you contracted for a service and the service provider came to you and asked you to renegotiate the contract you would say what about the rate and the contract we already have? What's the point of the contract? Again, the naivety befuddles me. I am not a company sympathizer, what I am is a realist and in the real world it doesn't work the way you wish it would. In the end, we will get what we negotiate, which is whatever they are willing to pay given any pressure/leverage we can exert, nothing more and nothing less.