[central_va]

After the awful employment conditions after 2008, people in my industry are very, very reluctant to leave a stable position for a new one that comes with a lot of uncertainty.

Bunk, Pay more. You deny the laws of supply and demand. Are all capitalists like you, i.e. ignorant hypocrites?

[Alberta's Child]

Bunk, Pay more.

Or automate. Or hire contractors. Or relocate. Or turn away customers and/or abandon some lines of business.

One of the negative consequences of an information-age economy is that we end up with skilled, educated workers who have the same outlook on the world as a bunch of union steelworkers trudging into a faded Rust Belt steel mill that currently employs no more than 10% of its peak post-WW2 work force.