Found this posted at my job after a mandatory meeting

You need to actually read about the theory to understand it. I'm not arguing. I am trying to show you information about Keynesian economics. Read the large block of text.

Wages don't rise quickly because of stickiness, that is the current theory. Why don't employers immediately raise wages?

Because a company doing better or the dollar losing value isn't something that can be relied on for the long term. It's seen as a temporary fluctuation. Once wages go up, they don't go down (stickiness) regardless of the currency's or company's performance.

When people calculate MEC, that includes labor costs, future returns are considered MEC is “the rate of discount which would make the present value of the series of annuities given by the returns expected from the capital asset during its life just equal its supply price”.

Meaning if a company quickly responded and increased wages because a temporary increase in profit; when profit decreased they make less for investors. When investors don't see good margins on investment they pull money from a firm. The firm ends up being bought out by a capital management firm, its assets are then chopped up and sold off. Or someone like DFV uses social media to manipulate an equity's price to stop the short sell to make himself rich.

So to balance the fact that wages are sticky, pay raises come slowly. Wages are/should be equal to the Marginal Disutility of Labor. When wages go up it leads to layoffs aka Involuntary Unemployment. It's a complex balancing act.

Again, if you actually want to understand economics you need to actually study it. Reading comments on reddit aren't the best place for that. I provided you a number of places to get more information. But it looks like you are dead set on arguing against definitions of words. I can't help that. Once you actually grasp the ideas we can argue about them. But at this point you don't seem, or want, to understand you want to be contrary. I'm not sure why people behave this way. What type of answer would you like? An emotionally charged answer about bosses conspiring against workers?

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