You assume those with out jobs are intellectually and physically fit to do the jobs that need filling. You also assume those not working are inclined to go to work at any wage.
In my visits to various small manufacturing companies, they can’t find workers that are drug free, will actually show up for work reliably and will actually work once they are hired.
This is first hand knowledge, not second or internet hand.”
Bert, your attitude is disgusting and your obvious disdain for Americans is crystal clear in your comment. I think what you just said says more about you than it does for the people you despise. What is the next thing you’re going to post, that you can “smell Walmart on them?”
Companies are in business to make money, not to provide jobs.
Marxist societies that place jobs over profits fail
No Bert is correct and you are wrong. What Bert stated is not limited to small manufacturing. I have a close friend who is small size general contractor. Depending on the job he will employ 5 to 15 laborers. He readily admitted that he employs mostly immigrants because compared to the pool of american laborers he has to choose from; the immigrants reliably show up to work ( many times early ) and stay late if necessary, clean up after themselves, don’t smoke dope during lunch time, and every free minute are not playing with a phone. That is a snapshot of a reality you can choose to believe or not. As the saying goes, there are none so blind that choose not to see.
I worked with an options trader whose family owned factories. He had the same complaint, saying that in the old days they had workers who were drunk, etc., and used it to justify hiring illegal aliens at their plants.
The employers Bert discusses could get better workers if they paid more; or, could deal with the lower productivity if they didn't have to compete with unfair, ruthless foreign competition.
The problem isn't the workers, it's the idiot trade and macroeconomic policies we've adopted over the past few decades.
In the sixties even a drunk could find work in construction or the garment district in New York and still afford an SRO hotel, which is why you didn't see homeless back then. That's how valuable American labor was.