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Board Economics
Re: Time to foot the bill
by
jrrsparkles
on 06/11/2021, 13:34:17 UTC
As I mentioned a while ago, and as it is obvious for everyone, the money printing and giveaways for furloughs and checks signed by "the president" party is not ended or about to end. And it is time for the hangover. Inflation rises, as it could not be otherwise. The private sector, particularly some sectors, are experiencing a demand of qualified workers and that means that salaries are likely to keep with inflation. However, the governments are playing with the idea of not keeping public salaries with inflation.

Depending on the country and the flexibility, this means that civil servants and public sector may become underpaid and those who actually have skills may leave to the private sector. As a result, I forecast that public services are going to deteriorate.
But as long as there is high unemployment rate in any country the government is not going to increase the salary of government employee according to the inflation rate because they know the employees won't quit even if they quit still they can recruit people for the same or even lower salary than experience.