Rent and Tips
RENT AND TIPS
...when capitalists create socialists...
Capitalism can be over-reaching.
Here are two places where overreaching capitalists help create socialists -
who are really just closet communists.
In the New Testament Book of James 5:
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
This was written to Christians, not to Jesus-haters. We know it targeted farming landowners. Today, it could apply to many others economic sectors as well.
High Rents
I was a landlord for over 30 years, and I know about renters and I know about landlords.
And I know about the pressure - that surges of immigration - places on the housing market.
And many landlords - as soon as two people want the same apartment - will raise the rent on the apartment - even if their expenses haven't changed.
This principle is called 'price-surging' or 'price-spiking' in hotel rooms and taxi fares when a special event comes to a city that will draw a lot of people. We also see this in food and drinks at places where carry-in food can be controlled, such as movie theaters, zoos, etc.
The is how it works with the illegal immigrant surge caused by Obama/Biden.
Millions of illegal immigrants need millions of places to stay, and so housing prices have spiked.
Simple math - when greed enters in.
The young people who voted for Obama/Biden are the ones suffering most
from illegal immigrant-surged housing cost increases.
Tips
My outside dining has declined severely since the angst about tipping has become so vocal.
The are three seen parties in this debate, and a fourth, unseen party.
Restaurant Owners: Claim they need patrons to pay the wages for the wait staff -
so they can afford to stay in business.
Wait Staff: Each wait person has an idea of the wages they should make for the work they do.
Customers can easily resent being hated for not wanting to pay two charges for one meal.
4th Party: These are the landlords, government regulations, insurance costs, franchise overlords, food and machinery suppliers and others involved in the day-to-day operations that affect costs.
My view: Many countries don't tip. Those restaurants charge enough to pay their wait staff from the meal charges. The wait staff agree to this amount up front; with no wondering what today's wages will be. (The uncertainty of tipping is part of the angst in America). In these places, such wages establish the socio-economic worth of the wait staff.
US Restaurants want their customers to pay waitstaff wages as an extra charge on the meals.
I suspect, in America, there are college students working toward degrees that might pay $100K per year and are insulted by the wages they make waiting tables. And they may begin to hate the people who will buy the meals but won't tip according to waitstaff expectations.
This is a strong factor in socialism -
hating people who have more - that won't surrender what they have.
Waitstaff college students are ripe fruit for communist college professors.
And ironically, some waitstaff are like greedy landlords that expect more for their services,
more than a fair market value.
And add to this mix - the influx of food trucks, allowing people to open food businesses without the costs of opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant.
PS: President Trump recently released a message saying that large corporations are trying to take over the single-family housing market, which he is attempting to deal with. This is no doubt another factor in the housing equation. Nonetheless immigration is a major accelerant in housing prices.
Beef versus Pork
I know something about meat. I was raised on small acreage. We often had a milk cow raised a garden every year and raised much of our own meat. We sent the beef to the meat locker for processing, but we usually butchered the hog ourselves, down to rending the lard too.
And I worked for a time as a meat cutter in a beef factory.
I'm over 70 years old, and I know historically that beef is always more expensive than pork,
for several reasons. Even so, I am now amazed how much more expensive beef is than pork -
once the Islamic invasion of America brought in so many pork haters.
While not all beef is 'halal', beef can be made halal while pork can never be.
With so little lamb meat and goat meat in America, beef prices have been quite high.
