double maxim
Striker
OK, let's say everyone gets a pay increase.
Immediately every business that employs anyone needs to raise their prices to pay the additional wages.
As a result, everyone is still just as poorly paid in reality even though the numbers on their wage cheques are bigger.
The pound plummets in value compared with other currencies.
Foreign imports become more expensive and so foreign items become more unaffordable and overall quality of life decreases.
People can't afford homes anymore as they can't compete with foreign investors whose foreign money is now worth more pounds than it used to.
Everyone ends up renting from foreign investors, pushing British money out of the country, strengthening other economies and weakening our own.
The pound plummets further.
People can't afford food and heating anymore.
Businesses close because nobody can afford to use them, everyone loses their jobs, and we're into a new Great Depression.
tl;dr nah it wouldn't work marra
Also, salary is only one element of your remuneration package, an 8% salary increase for a nurse isn't as good as an 8% pay rise for teachers as nurses pensions are nowhere near as good.
Op sounds like a communist and shouldn't be trusted.