The Rising Labor Shortage That Is Causing Major Concern

The Rising Labor Shortage That Is Causing Major Concern

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[robertdelorge]

What Ken fails to mention is that employers are just as much to blame for the low labor participation rate and everyone that works for a living or has worked for a living knows why.

[ronniepemberton]

Anyone who is working 40hrs a week should be paid enough to get an apartment in a decent area, a 5 year old car, medical insurance, good food, pay their bills and need no room mate or help from parents. If they can't do this they are not being paid enough by their employer.

[cathyosullivan]

I worked in retail for a few years when I was younger and the jobs were terrible. Low wages, on your feet all day, low pay, no medical benefits, nasty managers, customers and coworkers!

[swifty]

If you want a job the hiring process is a joke. You get ignored, ghosted or rejected for whatever reason even when you’re qualified.

[vork]

if you cant work one job to live because most of these “jobs” pay peanuts and work you into the ground and replace you on a whim, then why work at all?

[lucaspit]

It's almost like jobs aren't paying people ages 24 and under enough to live on...

[TimErwin]

Imagine telling people they should work jobs that don't pay them enough to afford to move out of their parent's basement as an adult. And then being surprised and outraged they don't take those jobs. 😂

[PickledHam]

Most of those young people are making money with social media and gig economy. Those jobs are not counted in employment numbers.

[ericryan]

Start paying us fairly according to how the economy and inflation is doing just as the past generations got to enjoy & we will show up for work

[tandrew]

What is the other side of the problem? Exploitation of the workers and practically no taxing of the elite, which would rebuild our infrastructure and institutions (hospitals, schools, libraries, etc.).

[HHHPedigrees]

If the companies paid more im sure the workers would be happy to come back

[henejbenej]

Because we work to pay bills unlike previous generations where they used to create wealth.

[lonestarrk]

Men joined the trades and went to college to make money to have a family. 95% of women these days will never look an average man’s way. Why should they go into the workforce? The one thing that got them out of moms basement is gone. This is going to get so much worse before it gets better.

[ahoneyman]

These people are working but it's gig work. People flip cars, flip collectibles, do handyman work.... Hell, one of my friends makes $2500 cash to photograph a wedding. There's money out there besides traditional employment.

[Eric_Bassett]

Wages are trash for most jobs out there.. soooo I’m not surprised. To many low quality jobs with sub living wages.

[meditationgirl]

Many of the jobs pay the same or just a little bit more than welfare with or without a college degree.

[leifbymoen]

There are other pieces of this puzzle. So many organizations are doing one or more of these following things:
1. Selling a service or product that isn't actually in the customers best interest and relying on their employees to sell this faux value to their customer.
2. Pushing credit as their major product, being a bank parading as a retailer
3. Have a company culture where they appease and even promote lazy, unethical or even criminal behavior.
4. Leadership filled with non leaders. Often times just doing status quo JOE job, not interested in actual growth or advancement of business.

[hipointcal]

I say if you can somehow survive without "participating in wage slavery", go for it. The post ww2 economic boom has been over for 53 years and laboring your life away is just not worth it.

[christians]

I would guess that many don’t want to work almost exclusively because they don’t want to be in a hostile environment. That’s basically the main reason I’ve changed jobs personally. I like the quote from Peter Drucker; “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

[travisbplank]

The pay is meagre. The leadership is hostile. The family is non-existent. The culture is rotten. The country is not worth repairing.

God bless every person who can get away with not working and not propping up this shell game. Let the system collapse. Let the oligarchs try to force each other to work. I will buy as little as possible and work as little as possible and bide my time till death comes knocking.

I work as little as possible and do as little as possible while I'm forced to be at my job. Simply put, the threat of starvation is a much crappier motivator than upward mobility. There's nothing but stick left, no carrot. You can force me to work, sure, but you can't get nearly the same results from as you could if you'd give me reason to care about what I'm doing.