As an employee I don’t care about the reasons that inflation exists, I care about getting the same real money over time (only counting inflation raises, not counting merit or other kinds). And citation needed about inflation raises driving inflation, there are much bigger factors that contribute to it.

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nradov 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

Employers don't care about whether you're getting the same real money over time. Why should they?

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yladiz 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

Because I do, and if they only care about me as an economic output machine then why should I care about them?

Put another way, if they aren’t matching inflation, should I reduce the work I do correspondingly?

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nradov 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

No one is forcing you to care or to produce any particular level of work. If your job has no growth opportunities and stagnant compensation then you might want to look for other opportunities.

I think the issue here is that you're trying to frame the issue in terms of some sort of concept of fairness. But in reality that has nothing to do with it.

	▲	yladiz 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That’s a bit misleading, no? If you don’t produce a certain level of work you’re going to be fired.