Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by oblio on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:18AM
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And here I was thinking that undesirable jobs have to pay more to attract employees.
Instead, because the power relationship between companies and employees is imbalanced towards companies, who can afford to not hire a few employees while individual employees can't afford to starve, these employees have to accept suffering for a pittance because hey, there's a slight risk of inflation (while companies have been bailed out to the tune of a few trillion).
Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by kwhitefoot on Monday June 07, 2021 @03:09AM
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> the power relationship between companies and employees is imbalanced towards companies,
This is why low wage workers should unionise.
Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by oblio on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:35AM
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Most companies practice union busting.
Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by ikrenji on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:06AM
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well lets outlaw union busting and actually enforce it -> problem solved
Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by Qwertious on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:32PM
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Ah, but that's why companies employ political lobbying.
Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by imtringued on Monday June 07, 2021 @03:18AM
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Moderate inflation doesn't ruin economic recovery.
Italy and Greece both had low or shrinking inflation since 2016 and their economies are down the gutter.
The rest of the EU that has reasonable inflation is doing very well with 2%+ growth well above inflation.
On one side there is inflation which ruins the economic recovery (too generous benefits) and on the other side you have mass suffering (too stingy benefits). As the primary driver of the shortage (the fear of COVID) goes down, we also need to scale back benefits while maintaining that delicate balance between too generous and too stingy. And we can't stop decreasing benefits until people begin to accept those less desirable jobs again. Failure to do this would push us over into inflation.