Re:Record share of small businesses in U.S. report job vacan...
by faeriechangling on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:10PM
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So if there's a 5 million people who can work that aren't working, that shows there's a shortage? That makes zero sense. If 5 million people are standing around not working there is a job shortage, not a labor shortage. We have a shortage of businesses which can pay non-poverty wages for workers. We also as the article says have a "skills shortage", which again is a lack of employers willing to hire unskilled workers.
That fundamentally is because of the increasing value of capital over labour and the supremacy of efficient monopolists over the small businessmen. Simply small businesses cannot make good business models where their workers are getting paid twenty bucks. It's about the expansion of the welfare state to fill the gap where these small businesses are failing, we have seen the expansion of pseudo universal basic income programs to fill the gaps that small businesses could not fill.
The problem is not a labor shortage, we've figured out the labor shortage, we have more labor than you can shake stick at. The bigger and more fundamental issue is the concentration of power in big monopolists and the increasing irrelevance of small businesses which can only hope to ensure enough of the population is impoverished and enough of the welfare state goes through them that people will come crawling back to their jobs mopping up the bathroom at a wing shack for poverty wages. Yet the writing is on the wall that the "labor shortage" will be resolved by having these businesses close down, and then when there are no open job postings, just like that the "labor shortage" will disappear being revealed as nothing more than the propaganda of a faltering social class.
We will then be forced to deal with the real problem which is the fact that labor can't produce enough surplus output to provide for themselves. The terrifying reality of this automated world, accelerated by a global pandemic. There is no pedantry going on here, because pedantry refers to people nitpicking minor details, calling this a "labor shortage" is COMPLETELY missing the point.
That fundamentally is because of the increasing value of capital over labour and the supremacy of efficient monopolists over the small businessmen. Simply small businesses cannot make good business models where their workers are getting paid twenty bucks. It's about the expansion of the welfare state to fill the gap where these small businesses are failing, we have seen the expansion of pseudo universal basic income programs to fill the gaps that small businesses could not fill.
The problem is not a labor shortage, we've figured out the labor shortage, we have more labor than you can shake stick at. The bigger and more fundamental issue is the concentration of power in big monopolists and the increasing irrelevance of small businesses which can only hope to ensure enough of the population is impoverished and enough of the welfare state goes through them that people will come crawling back to their jobs mopping up the bathroom at a wing shack for poverty wages. Yet the writing is on the wall that the "labor shortage" will be resolved by having these businesses close down, and then when there are no open job postings, just like that the "labor shortage" will disappear being revealed as nothing more than the propaganda of a faltering social class.
We will then be forced to deal with the real problem which is the fact that labor can't produce enough surplus output to provide for themselves. The terrifying reality of this automated world, accelerated by a global pandemic. There is no pedantry going on here, because pedantry refers to people nitpicking minor details, calling this a "labor shortage" is COMPLETELY missing the point.