There has never been a "worker shortage" in the history of America, quite the opposite in fact. We have plenty of workers, and always have, we're a nation of working people. What these clowns tell us are "worker shortages" are actually periods during which the value of labor increased to a point where a properly staffed work force began to cut into the double-digit capital gains, and shareholders had to experience the horror of actually losing a small fraction of their own income instead of treating payroll like a facet of overhead, a belt to be ever tightened and never loosened.
Since the 1970's, compensation for actual work has lagged behind every other form of earning. It's infuriating to see "the economy doing great," to be working constantly, and to barely get ahead at all year by year. Got some money saved up, thinking of investing it? Too bad, we've concocted a bank crash for you, or a real estate crash, or a fake plandemic.
It's enough to make a man feel sort of revolutionary.
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