It adds up...

It adding up is the problem.

Because it means "job creators" who do nothing but posses titles to land and company stocks are syphoning off money.

If they need 3 staff for 21 kids, they're going to pay as little as they can to keep 3 staff. And charge as much as they can to keep 21 kids.

There's no correlation between what staffing costs and what prices are charged, why would there be?

Both are just line items, and the person in charge just wants the profit line to have the biggest number.

The larger the company is, the worst that becomes. Or if the company is small, but owned by someone with a dozen other companies.

Expecting salary to match what people pay is toddler logic, sure it would be great if it worked like that, but any adult thinking more than 2 seconds can see why that's not related in the modern age. Hell, its been decades since the "if we pay workers a living wage a value meal goes up $0.02!".

Americans literally all said they were fine with that, almost zero companies increased pay, and all of them.increaswd prices anyways

There's obviously no correlation