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Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by michaelmrose on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:21PM (#27859424)
The government has neither the means nor desire to push the price to infinity. It normally pays starvation wages and for another 6 weeks will continue to pay a barely livable wage before returning to starvation wages.

Most the jobs they can't fill are 24 hours per week 8-12 bucks an hour slog fests for the not so princely sum of 800-1200 whereas people are getting paid 2500 in unemployment benefits NOT full time jobs paying substantially more than unemployment.

Your concerns are fanciful.

Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by missedthecue on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:43PM (#27859690)
I make $15.60 an hour at my job. These 'concerns' are my day-to-day life.
Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by michaelmrose on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:42AM (#27863572)
As an employee making 15.60 what precisely is your concern with any temporary distortion of the price of low wage labor? I don't see how you could lose exactly?
Re:Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemplo... by missedthecue on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:35PM (#27866921)
Something that is good for me at the expense of everyone else probably shouldn't be happening.