paying for labor increases the demand for labor, thus increasing the price everyone else pays
Yes, but they now have more money, so maybe the effects cancel out, globally. Locally, the person you paid has a bit more money, and everyone else is microscopically more poor (because it would be more difficult for them to pay that one specific person to do something for them).
Yes, but they now have more money, so maybe the effects cancel out, globally. Locally, the person you paid has a bit more money, and everyone else is microscopically more poor (because it would be more difficult for them to pay that one specific person to do something for them).