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I recall a great Brent Brown cartoon 10+ years ago about young people moving to Asheville by the “sirens” of music, art, craft beer and free love, only to have the high cost of housing and low wages remove the ground from beneath their feet.
Great cartoons then and now, BUT I have not yet seen the mass Exodus and wonder how bad things have to get before “Beer City” loses its’ “cool” vibe.
The next step is a third frame to this cartoon; a patron at a local business complaining about the prices on a menu or receipt and the owner saying sorry I have to supply higher prices in exchange for the demand for higher wages. Because, either profits for owners are going to have to go down and/or prices to consumers are going to have to go up for the equation to ever become more equitable. We as consumers have to be willing to do our part and pay the higher prices if we ever want to see increased equity.