Indeed Employer Hiring Website Says Amazon Pays Avg $17/hr, Boeing Used to Pay Like $30-40/hr Years Ago

Good Morning, Grab Your Mug of Yuban and read the brief: "...In 2020, Amazon surpassed Boeing as the state’s largest private employer, usurping a title Boeing has held likely as far back as World War II. The milestone represents a tectonic shift in the state's economy, experts say. Read more..." SWE's Take: Yeah, Boeing Used to Pay Good avg salaries years ago, like $30-40/hr....Indeed website documents the average pay at AMZ at $17/hr....hamburger flipper type wages. "...To help get a handle on 2021, a year when everything is seemingly up for grabs, Jon Talton takes a look back to the 1920s: another era of unprecedented change — and another pandemic. Read more..." SWE's take: The unemployed MASSES doesn't wants to work around KIller Flu anymore, there's HELP WANTED all over the Seattle Area now. These stay at home loafs all want "ChiCom Type COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM now...they don't deserve unemployment extensions in America now. "...The Pandemic was hard on Seattle.." SWE's Take: Hey, make lemon aid out of lemons....the take out food restaurants are desparate now and these are recent take out prices in the Seattle Area....SONICs' footlong chili dogs are very filling 1400 calories and $1.99 each....Shari's gives $10 off the next month's order if you order twice a month and $5 off the next order if you spend $100....Denny's brought back their value meal menu...IHOP sells a GIANT 55+ menu item turkey dinner [all the trimmings too] with toast and pancakes for $8.99....etc, etc... "...Seattle dumpling master Hsiao-Ching Chou is back with a second cookbook, "Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food," right when we need it most. Read more..." SWE's take: Probably sells for like $10-15 for basically a plate of noodles with hardly any meat. The Seattle Chinese make good buffets [not available any more] but their entrees for take out are generally rip-offs and non-filling....over priced too. Good News: Most of the ethnic take out is WAY over priced, including Safeway's Deli...the American food big restaurant chains offer the best deals now for takeout of freshly cooked food.