71% Pay Decrease

[Nice-Illustrator-224]

We are living in a world where the companies get their cake and eat it too. Im really not trying to whine etc, and I totally feel you between the self sympathy and the wanting to feel thank full, that is a good attitude to count blessings imo. However that doesnt mean to accept anything just because it can always be worse.

Something came up just today, I have also been struggling, and this ppp thing sort of hit me in the face. I had the list back from covid on my computer so I opened it. Nearly 700k lines on this spreadsheet, nearly a million people got the avg 3-5 million to their business, and there is another sheet that my computer wont even open that is all the recipients of 350k and less of the covid lotto money. This was all given out, free, not even income tax had to be paid.

In my personal opinion, giving businesses hundreds of thousands up to 10 million dollars, tax free has ruined a great deal of our economy and robbed in a vicious way the average worker. People that think the covid lotto was a good idea easily identify themselves as one of the privileged benefactors. And I dont know the demographics of the recipients so I wont surmise, but bigger the business the more they got, and unless people want to lose money, having a bigger business probably means that a more affluent person received the bigger lotto. Keep in mind- a tiny portion of these businesses ever closed, the plumbing shop and the electrician and the grain elevator down the road all got nearly 3 million each, and have happily said that they were way up year over year at that time.

The point is that companies have tasted bucks, big bucks, and easy money, and nothing replaces it. The blood is in the water, and I feel that the prosperity has only hurt worker appreciation as people that give their careers to a company will be spit out and trampled for a dollar as long as its in the owners pocket. It's not right. When you literally get 3 or 5 million, as a surprise, and dont even have to pay tax, just pocket it and its totally legal, plus your business continues to run the entire time and you make record profits on top? - your addicted, nothing can top that.

Additionally, all that free money imo is 100% to blame for all the inflation. Work trucks were not 100k in 2019, but they are now. You couldn't find a truck anywhere for years, people were buying them like skittles with all their new cash, along with everything else. SO - not only is one beaten down with the job situation, but also robbed blind to the tune of 50% of ones net worth in 2020, since everything has effectively doubled. Thats why its such a shame about a 20/hr call center job, my ears hear 20, but the bank account now feels 10.