1. The scenario you describe with people getting paid to stay home applies mainly to low-skill workers and jobs that are typically filled by younger people as entry-level work.
2. The bigger problem is in more skilled positions like truck drivers and skilled trades. These are fields where there are fewer young people in the business right now (you can’t get a CDL until the age of 21, in fact). The experts generally agreed that these fields are starving for workers because so many of their workers opted to retire after facing the COVID fiasco last year.
I totally get that it mainly applies to non-skilled and they will be the ones agitating for socialism when this house of cards collapse.
I can also see that covid thing drove older workers out of the workforce.
# 2. The bigger problem is in more skilled positions like truck drivers and skilled trades.
I have a friend in the elevator trade. There simply aren’t enough younger folk in the pipeline to make up for the older folks retiring. It is definitely a skilled job. You can’t just walk up off the street and fix an elevator or escalator. It literally takes years for a newbie to become useful.