Imo the shortage of workers is from the mass retirements and simply there aren’t enough working whites anymore
I think it is also people taking a hardline on the vaccine.
Also people dying/getting incapacitated by the experimental injections
Yeah, plus or minus several million.
No reason to work. Pay is shit taxes are high. Everyone wants a master's degree and 50 years of experience to make 30% over Wendy's entry level. I gave up and hustle side money on the Internet. I make more money doing that than working a real job.
Crypto DAOs. I have a good head for tokenomics so I just negotiate with random dudes starting platforms up and work with them... Usually for their shitcoin. I get. A heck of lot of their early coins and I hold them til there is a good time to dump.
not “real” the word you want is ‘traditional’
I feel like every other 20 something is working a side hustl we like Doordash, instacart, handyman, part time nanny etc.
Yeah I'm quite a bit older than 20 and just run a bunch of crypto based stuff. Unreliable, fun, under the table. It's great. Fuck jobs.
I think that a valid observation
My thoughts on the labor shortage:
Mass retirements did happen. I personally know multiple people who were in that age range that might have kept working but were uninterested in adapting to covid work.
Leaving industry en mass did happen. I personally know a few people who adapted to at home or some other form of work than the traditional model because they had no choice during lockdown. Some of them have no interest in going back.
Of course gibs happened too. At the lowest level people got handouts instead of going to their retail jobs. Some of those people had the integrity before to say "I might work a low skill job but I'll be damned if I an going on govt handouts." Well, lockdowns left them no choice and killed their pride.
>Well, lockdowns left them no choice and killed their pride.
More likely, they realized just how badly fucked the welfare system is when they finally opted and/or were forced to participate, and it was insta blackpill.
we had 60 people retire in the last two years that normally would have worked till they dropped dead, we're still short 50 people in my part of the company.
companies been offering $5k sing on bonus in the first check and starting people off with $35 an hour and it still doesnt get people. the white people we get do stick around but the other flavors of brown dont last
Wheres this at now and when can I stary
What kind of job is it?
Also, they can find lots of warm bodies that want a paycheck, but they tend to be 100% incompetent, like they can't even work the cartoon cash register at McDonalds they are so incompetent. I'm seeing people under 25 years old working at jobs that they are absolutely incapable of performing. Their brains don't hold any data for any amount of time. You can't tell them more than one single thing at a time without confusing them completely. They only understand a couple thousand words of their own native language, where people used to be able to understand at least 80,000 English words. They can read a little bit, but they can't really write comprehensibly because no one has ever made them do so.
So it isn't the pay scale, or even the motivation of the people involved, it's the absolute incapability of most people under 25 years of age in the United States of America in 2022 to actually perform any useful tasks or functions whatsoever.
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