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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by bumby on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:32AM (#28017980)
>In a market economy there is no such thing as a "shortage" of workers.

Certainly there can be a lag effect though. If there is a shortage of doctors that won’t be remedied overnight by simply increasing incentives because of the amount of time to gain the necessary skills, licensing, etc.

Unless you are willing to lower quality substantially, there absolutely can be worker shortages in a real pragmatic sense

Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by x0x0 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:17PM (#28019431)
Except the discussion here is truck drivers (lag: 60 days) and restaurant workers (lag: ~ 0 days).
Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by bumby on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:21PM (#28019478)
The comment I replied to didn’t mention truck drivers. They brought up a hypothetical widget factory as an analogy for the economy at large