Posted on 09/19/2021 8:35:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I forget the exact numbers but years ago, as we faced the retirement of the boomers (Delayed by the Great Recession for some) we also faced a birth dearth in the Millennials. The word was that there will not be enough of the latter to replace the former. I have told my son, an early Millennial, that he would grow up to live in a seller’s market for employment.
I did not figure the country would go so completely to crap though.
I am a mid-term boomer and retired going on 5 years ago.
Now that the enhanced unemployment is gone I still don’t understand why poeple won’t work. I think one writer here is correct, they got out of the habit of work and the end of the gravy train of unemployment benefits is not yet sunk in.
Ping!
Paging Karl Denninger.....please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Wonder if worldwide chip shortages are creating industrial inefficencies that are resulting in more costly labor to maintain production levels.
Here’s why.
An overnight shift in a local Walmart shut down, because nearly all of the young employees fell ill with COVID. Some were hospitalized.
The store advertised for new employees with large banners and an offer for higher pay. For quite a few days, none of the noisy, political chickens applied to take their places. After a few more weeks, a few obviously exceptionally fit, vaccinated teenagers took the jobs.
Same at a local bank. The tellers who worked there are gone and have been replaced with vaccinated teenage girls.
Only in the US. Does not explain other countries lack of labor .
Exactly.
What do YOU suppose explains it?
Hmmm....worldwide....sudden....workforce....shortage.
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People falsely assume that all these jobs before were the primary job of the person who has filling it. That’s false for a large number of service and retail jobs. A large number that were previously filled were second and even third jobs for people. A lot of people realised after having so much time at home with family , friends and pets that it’s just not worth that extra $$ to work that second job. People downsized living situations and can now “get by” in a lot less income. Others found out that trying to keep up with the Jones’s with new luxury cars and flashy homes is a rat race construct ment to enslave you to the property tax man and to the banks with interest on mortgages for oversized McMansions and leased automobiles at usury interest rates. People are better off for getting out of the rat race.
Ye olde Cloward-Piven. Yep!
Why would I ask that? Why would you think I would post that not knowing who John Galt is, with you knowing who John Galt is?
Sheesh.... Recognizing brutal subtlety is not your strength ;-)
I guess I have to add the
no worries
What a load of bull spit.
I’m really sure this Walmart shift and your local bank tellers have ALL been replaced with “vax”d replacements.
Not.
The ones w/china virus were likely VAX’d. At least that is what the rest of the country/world is seeing.
But, I’m sure your little hamlet is the lone exception. Give it a rest.
Now....maybe the un- “vax”d and “vax”d are replacing the “vax”d....that would be more like it, until only the un- “vax”d are available. More and more, as each day passes, I’m afraid.
The article keeps asking the question - but never attempts to answer it, except to talk about people possibly quitting due to vax mandates
They all died from Covid
Here’s an idea… eliminate ALL the dozens of freebies and welfare at state and Federal levels and see what happens. Hunger drives work.
Death and disability from the vaxx needs to be considered. The impacts will grow through the Winter months.
In a world of artificially low interest rates (cost of money), there is too much overinvestment for the available labor.
There are TOO MANY businesses with business models that are not viable anymore.
RAISE PAY 25% more or higher and people will begin going to work for these higher paying jobs.
STOP the government subsidizing labor with immigration.
Then, we’ll have a normal labor market.
I’m the last year of the baby boom and I retired early three years ago. Love it!
The enhanced unemployment ended. It could be the mandates. I know I would quit my job in a heart beat if they mandated the shot at my work.
Massive truckers’ strike has Australia looking like Venezuela…
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1434651994216673282
Might explain all the migrants Biden let in, and why they’re not being jabbed at the border before being dispersed into the US. Perhaps they’re meant to fill the jobs at the base of the pyramid (at least in the short term).
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