[Jonty30]

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.

[setter]

Only in the US. Does not explain other countries lack of labor .

[roving]

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.

[Alberta's Child]

I sat in on a web meeting of supply chain management experts last week, and from what they said there are two different forces at work here:

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.

[Widget Jr]

Also telliing people get the jab or you don’t get a job, goto school, or travel.

[central_va]

"The governments are all paying low wage workers to stay home."

And employers are refusing to raise wages. A pox on both houses...