Posted on 09/19/2021 8:35:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Who is John Galt
Here in America, we have called out the National Guard to drive school buses.
Massachusetts National Guard Activated To Help Deal With School Bus Driver Shortage
It’s not a mystery at all. The governments are all paying low wage workers to stay home. At some point, these low wage and skill workers will have the rug pulled out from under them and they will form the army that will demand worldwide socialism.
Only in the US. Does not explain other countries lack of labor .
Work is habit for most.... those habits have been broken.
Close to a 2% drop in labor participation rates since Covid started might have a bit to do with it
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-participation-rate
You are EXACTLY right.
People have also figured out that keeping up with the Jones’s rat race is not as important as it seemed. A good number of service industry jobs were staffed by people who that was their second or even third job part time. All those people have realised work life balance was F’d up. Leisure has value as does family time and travel. Also a good number of people have gone into the “gig” economy and also the grey and black economy. There is also a structural shift in the workforce. People who were waiting tables found out they could for the same money or better answer call center calls at home. Same goes for the person cleaning hotel rooms or scrubbing floors. Even low skilled jobs like data entry or medical coding can be done from home by former retail sales or customer service types. The job paradigm that existed in 2019 is over. Plus a lot of boomers retired early and also reached retirement ages anyway over the last 2 years.
My husband works in an area that has around 2% unemployment rate right now. It is a business district and every company is short and desperate for employees - from entry level jobs to six figure management levels. It’s crazy.
He was taking to a delivery guy asking how transportation was going (they are hurting for drivers), the guy said that a lot of their drivers do Uber now. But it doesn’t explain the rest.
This is what happens when the friction of testing and masking is jammed into a just-in-time economy. The gears start seizing and incentives are skewed.
Labor won’t appear until hunger starts.
i know who john galt is i guess you left off the /s
flr
Good points
This feels like attrition. Workers are leaving for better gigs Notice that the jobs they are having trouble filling tender to be manual labor intesive as well as low pay. I have never been a rice harvester in Vietnam but I suspect it not the greatest job in the world
Why spend all day hunched over in a rice patty instead of working in a factory making far more money?
Alien Abduction?
It’s part of “overwhelm the system”.
Sorry, just the source you used did not make it obvious enough for me. I excoriate people for missing sarcasm or humor so my bad.
Wikipedia is a dumpster fire intellectually.
Excellent points, the same point is why spend all day in a restaurant with a mask on , being barked at by the prols for $2.15 he plus tips when the same person can make $15 answering call center calls from home. I know of two of my friends daughter’s who used to wait tables both are now happy taking calls in their pajamas from home. If you have the.English skills to wait tables you have the skills to tell someone on the phone sorry spectrum cable has raised your bill again. I also know a number of former bartenders that now day trade they took the .gov stay at home money and smartly invested it. Not lazy nor dumb.
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