@mar77i @coolboymew yeah, i just think this goes to show how much more relative bargaining power employers had the past few years (maybe decades?).
The weird thing is, I don't know how much of this change in the dynamic stems from "concrete" economic changes (e.g. workers are more flush with cash than before due to the PUA & other bailouts), & how much it has to do with a change in subjective valuation (e.g. people got more time off to be with family during covid, see their kids, etc. & realized they could with less money, because they had nothing to spend money on, etc.)
Exactly they say they want to "build back better" that slogan implies they want to destroy the status quo we enjoyed to create their own vision of their neurotic "utopia".