Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
by tsimionescu on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:40AM
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The problem with this idea is that, beneath some wage floor, workers lose money by working, and would be better off growing food somewhere. The minimum wage is often below this floor, actually - people working minimum wage are often overall paying to work.
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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
by nradov on Saturday July 31, 2021 @10:41AM
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Growing food where? Someone owns all the productive farmland and they aren't giving it away. But people who are willing to work hard and get dirty can certainly find jobs in agriculture.
Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
by tsimionescu on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:55PM
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Maybe growing food is a bad example, especially since you may be homeless, though if you do own a house, you can do subsistence farming in almlst any soil, raise a few chicken etc.
A better example could be that rather than working below minimum age in NYC you would be better off moving to a rural area and working there.