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The source of worker shortages, supply chain bottlenecks and a lot of our stagflationary issues can be traced directly back to the government’s covid restrictions and the covid welfare programs. Get rid of the restrictions, the mandates and the covid checks and over time the crisis will disappear. It really is that simple. However, the establishment does not want you to see it that way.

Aren’t those gone? I see states spending the covid money they never handed out. I thought the eviction moratorium and increased unemployment were over.

Marxist/Socialist groups are working feverishly to make hay with the covid protests and employee strikes in an attempt to attribute them to “worker discontent” over low wages and “mistreatment” rather than the covid mandates. This is nonsense.

The shortage doesn’t make any sense, first it’s wages, then it’s not feeling safe around the unvaxxed as they go and party and shopping all day. Where’s the money for these 20ish kids coming from.

First and foremost, wages have been rising exponentially in the past year for what I would call “zero skill workers” in the retail and service industries. When a potential employee with no valuable skills can walk into almost any chain restaurant or retail outlet and get $15 or more an hour on top of a signing bonus of hundreds of dollars just for showing up on the first day, there is no unfair disparity for the working class.

I had some well dressed young 20 something ask me for change the other day lol. Of course he was wearing a mask outside and no bus had come by so he’s just a moron. I said it’s 2021, people don’t have change, get a job.

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That’s why decades ago these jobs were filled by teenagers, not people in their 20s or older. Doubling the minimum wage only accomplished one thing int he long run: Much higher prices for everyone.

If you were out of high school and working these jobs you were a loser. These jobs were never meant to be career positions.

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That's one of the things I've pointed out over time. It used to be you worked at McDonalds or the local grocery or whatever over the summer, did that for a few years, and once you went to go for a real job the work history showed you were an acceptable risk and they hired you.

Now, those big-boy jobs are gone or require massive amounts of education for an entry level position, and pay the same or less than fast food.

I can't count how many "BS (or even MS) and 5 years experience, 16-17/hr" jobs I've laughed at over the past few years.

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You you did it during high school or going to college, once you graduated you left unless you were elderly.

Others worked and when they graduated they went to a factory, started making good money, started a family but that’s which all gone now.

Just from my older cousins and family you could go to a business without a degree and move up from the bottom. I have a healthcare ceo that started out in the cafeteria in HS, a SVP for one of the major carriers and started right after high school. They thought when they were bought out they’d be fired but got a promotion instead.

Most my family over 50 started at the bottom and either had no college or a few terms and have succeeded. Others went to the trades and/or started their own businesses.

Now it’s fours years for a piece of paper that gives you no real world experience.

I’d take someone from the bottom and can do the job over a college graduate any day.