The Labor Shortage Isn’t Just Closing Small Businesses, But Shattering Entire Retirement Plans

The Federalist ^ | September 23, 2021 | Kylee Zemple

[Himyar]

Maybe small animal vets that work for companies, but not large animal vets. They work long hours sometimes under terrible conditions.

[Pining_4_TX]

With the way the public and even children behave now, why would anyone want to work in a job where he would have to face that every day? Civilization is dying. People are terrible to retail and restaurant workers, and often even violent. I read some horror stories about what school bus drivers have to deal with.

[caww]

Yep...the public have become so rude and violent nobody wants to work with public ...Can’t say I blame them. I retired early because I’d had enough....even with good ways of handling it’s draining dealing with an ungrateful public.

[sevinufnine]

Um, they don’t tax my saving account, so I’m not understanding what you’re talking about.

But, I also inherited a couple hundred acres of land when my husband’s grandparents died which came to me after my husband passed. That, too is part of my nest egg for the future.

[Oatka]

. . . and stuck it in MY SAVINGS ACCOUNT> So monthly I put same amount in as I was with my job

At the rate the Congress and the lap dog Fed are debasing the currency (inflation anyone?), it may be prudent to put a percentage of that into physical gold and silver. (This advice is worth what you paid for it.)

That puts you outside of the banking system** with all their convolutions and gives you a base to start from again after things go belly up.

And they will do so as the debt load is unsustainable. It is small comfort that the rest of the world is that way as well, and what is coming is going to make 1929 look like a day in the park.

** The government can dictate what that piece of paper in your savings is worth, but they cannot dictate that that one ounce coin in your hand now weighs one half ounce.

[Oatka]

Yep, my wifes doctor quit his practice and went to work as an employee of a large local hospital. Said he wished he did it 10 years ago. No more hassles.

Some years ago my brother asked his VA doc why he wasn't in the more lucrative private practice. Doc said that end of the day, he went home and enjoyed his evenings - no after hours phone calls, no worries about liability insurance premiums, etc.

[cgbg]

Oh, no, I like my schedule here. I get to work kind of when I want to.’ And they’re not interested in a full-time job.

The workers don't know the words, but that they are talking about is the marginal utility of leisure time.

In a highly regulated and taxed economy it is much more difficult for these average folks to get rich by learning the skills to own and run a small business, so they rationally calculate that it is not worth sacrificing their leisure time.

This stuff is _way_ below the radar, but we have become a third world economy where leisure has a very high marginal utility. Countries best known for this in the past were Greece and Italy.