And when you’re not in a high demand field its a thousand times harder.
If you don’t have the right skills, or the right sociability, its nowhere near as easy to just hop around to whatever job gets you enough to live off of.
You might right about the first part. You’re wrong about the second. If you’re not in a high-demand field, you have no negotiating power to get that 15% increase since there’s another person who would work for less. Jumping jobs yields pay raises only in some fields in some markets, likely in the upper ends of the labor pay scale.
Just because something is possible does not make it doable for the average person. Sometimes people don’t want maximizing their salary potential to be their entire lives. They just want enough to live comfortably without killing themselves 10-12 hours a day.
Having to constantly work to get the bare minimum acceptable is not okay. And hustle culture does not change that.
If you’re not then you should be looking for another job. Nobody is going to just give you anything, you need to go get it.
Switching jobs can’t counter market power, whenever employers have it, which is probably the vast majority of cases. Unions can.
People too lazy to find a higher paying job when they’re being underpaid are also likely too lazy to actually organize.
Unions don’t appear out of thin air. They require a ton of grassroots effort.
And I have never not gotten at least a 15% pay increase by switching jobs. It’s the most effective way to increase your pay today, even with unions.
And when you’re not in a high demand field its a thousand times harder.
If you don’t have the right skills, or the right sociability, its nowhere near as easy to just hop around to whatever job gets you enough to live off of.
You wanna tell that to my software developer friend who literally cannot find work right now? He worked for facebook and spotify and got laid off.
You might right about the first part. You’re wrong about the second. If you’re not in a high-demand field, you have no negotiating power to get that 15% increase since there’s another person who would work for less. Jumping jobs yields pay raises only in some fields in some markets, likely in the upper ends of the labor pay scale.
Pull those bootstraps!
Just because something is possible does not make it doable for the average person. Sometimes people don’t want maximizing their salary potential to be their entire lives. They just want enough to live comfortably without killing themselves 10-12 hours a day.
Having to constantly work to get the bare minimum acceptable is not okay. And hustle culture does not change that.