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Re:American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer by vacri on Saturday December 17, 2016 @02:00AM (#13199672)
> Here we go again with the "shortage of workers". In one article it's tech workers. Here it's GenX workers. A "shortage" of a good is pretty meaningless if you don't mention the price you're offering to pay for that good. Unless they're saying they literally can't find qualified GenX workers at any price--That would be a real shortage. Otherwise, maybe you need to just offer a little more money to find skilled mid-career workers nowadays.

By that rationale, there's no food shortage in Venezuela. "There is food, people just need to offer more money for it."

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Re:American Firms Want to Keep Older Workers a Bit Longer by owengriffiths on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:23AM (#13200253)
Actually yes. The food shortage is because the government is preventing people offering more money to bring the market into balance.
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