News: Turkey Increases Min. Wage 55%!! (To Beat Inflation)
Rebel Capitalist News
George Gammon
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello fellow rebel capitals, hope you're well. |
| 0:02.8 | Big macro economic news today out of Turkey. |
| 0:07.2 | They're raising their minimum wage to 50, |
| 0:10.3 | or excuse me, they're raising their minimum wage by 55%. Of course they're doing this to beat inflation. |
| 0:19.0 | You guys can already see where this is going. Let's shoot over to |
| 0:25.0 | see let me do a screen share title Turkey hikes minimum wage by 55% as |
| 0:32.0 | inflationed and living cost crisis bite. Right? But you guys know how to beat inflation is you have to increase supply and you have to |
| 0:48.0 | decrease demand. That's why higher prices cure higher prices. But what they are doing is they are not decreasing demand. They are increasing demand. So although most of you who gave the |
| 1:07.3 | last video a thumbs down would agree that this is a good thing because hey times are tough right we got to give |
| 1:18.6 | people money times are tough we got to ask mom and dad for some we got to ask mom and dad to pay |
| 1:27.2 | our phone bill or sell bill. I mean times are tough right and therefore we got to ask the government go ahead and give us a $25 minimum wage anyway I'm just picking on the haters |
| 1:41.7 | But you guys know the gist of what's going on here. We've seen this with the |
| 1:45.5 | stimmies. We've seen this with the gas stimmies. And I think we're going to see this |
| 1:50.4 | into the future with a universal basic income and ironically one of the |
| 1:56.8 | excuses they'll probably use is hey inflation's high times are tough higher prices we got to give people more money to afford the higher |
| 2:06.4 | prices but what does that do that just makes things worse because you're increasing demand. |
| 2:16.0 | Therefore, prices will just go higher and higher and higher and higher, |
| 2:19.0 | and you will be shooting these people in the foot that you are trying to help because while they may |
| 2:27.0 | temporarily have more purchasing power, give it a couple of months and their purchasing power in aggregate total is going to go down. |
| 2:38.0 | The key talking points, the move is aimed at easing the impact of surging living costs. |
| 2:43.2 | And another reason I think this story is important, guys, |
| 2:47.2 | is to number one, see the direction of the, |
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