[Drew68]

“I’m in restaurants working all the time,” said Gary, who often services commercial refrigerators. “I’ll be talking with young guys that are in there, chopping up onions in the kitchen, whatever. And I’ll ask them, ‘Have you thought about something else different? Trades?’ ‘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.”

Amazing. The guy is begging fast food workers to come learn his trade so he can practically give them his business and he's getting turned down. There's got to be something else.

FWIW, many of the fast food places (including Chik-Fil-A) are cutting their operating hours because they don't have enough employees to stay open.

[setter]

“The guy is begging fast food workers to come learn his trade so he can practically give them his business and he’s getting turned down. There’s got to be something else.”

See my post and others above above. No one wants the hassle of being an owner anymore.
Also millennials and below go from job and local to job and local. They do not want to be tied down permanetly.

My nieces and nephews more around from job to job an city to city every few years like gypsies.

[kearnyirish2]

Owning/managing a business is difficult and stressful, and the government’s recent flexing of its muscles to show how it can control them might make it unappealing. For many young people the American Dream is dead, so they’ll make enough to get by, forego homes and families, and die unencumbered.

I also believe (at least in my area) a lot less people are eating out (at least beyond dollar menus); a mall that opened in the NJ meadowlands sat vacant for years (never even opened) until recently - and now it is a shopping/ENTERTAINMENT center. That discretionary income is gone for many people with families, and NJ had to raise its minimum wage to $12/hour to give some to younger workers.

[rollo tomasi]

The 2020 lock-down turned flippant cynicism into an applied demand to not to work "for the man" anymore. This would be the production/wages ratio that is has not been balanced since Bretton Woods ended/influx of females into the workforce/A.I. advancement. Add the Covid response plus the fact that countries have declared war on the petrodollar (Including Saudi who is one of the primary drivers for this asinine currency the US bought into for short-sighted reasons) and you are near of perfect storms condition on how to murder a civilization (Don't get me started on the "humanitarian" invaders both major Parties love to import, along with the Utopian idea of Globalism.

Ricardo is much a Utopian as Marx and Engels, all were full of BS.

[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.