Not everyone has been eligible for the vaccine for long enough to expect them all to go back to work.
Two months from now? OK then I would agree with you.
Not everyone has been eligible for the vaccine for long enough to expect them all to go back to work.
Two months from now? OK then I would agree with you.
Supply and demand 101 wrote:
Businesses are struggling to pay appropriate wages. That's all.
But they can just close shop. They don't have to run a business.
This is pretty much always the issue. A couple years back on the news there was a owner complaining that he couldn't hire trained welders at 12/hr and they couldn't train them cause they all left. The problem is poor wages not a labor shortage.
Seriously why do you think trump had to important low skill workers for his resort? Because Americans couldn't do the jobs or because he wasn't willing to pay market rates?
We have whole segments of the economy that are based on no market rate labor. I will leave it up to you if that is a good or bad thing.
For those interested in the free market:
There was a major change over the last year that changed how work was done and what kind of work people want to do.
There will be winners and losers.
Businesses that can't find enough workers will have to adjust their business model if they want to keep going.
Workers that can't find a job they like need to adapt and learn new skills or be out of work.
I understand that enhanced unemployment benefits affects the free market but that is simply another variable to deal with until that phases out.
It exposes some issues more than causes them. Take it away and a lot of the issues are still there.
There will be a combination of higher wages and more automation that comes out of this.
dad guy wrote:
agip wrote:
it's complicated, but has a lot to do with kids not in school. A parent, usually the mom, has to stay at home to tend to the child. She can't go get a job until school is 100% in person.
So the Biden Admin has decided that it's in the nation's interest to support these families. Do you think that's wrong?
I do think it's wrong. Schools need more pressure to reopen, not less.
none of this is easy. It's all compromise and give and take. We tend to lean on the side of trying to help families with children and ease the stresses of economic hardship on them.
Many right wingers feel that the character of the kids and parents would be improved by facing economic winds more full in the face. Many left wingers think a big part of the job of government is to use the power of the gummint to ease such economic stresses on vulnerable citizens.
Yep indeed the dems and liberals are all about buying votes. They'll screw a lot of people over but as long as they toss a bone or a steak to 50% of people, they'll have a chance to be elected. Then once they get into power they immediately reverse course and start screwing even more people over. Their approval goes in the gutter. Then when the next election comes around they start their scheme again by buying votes, giving handouts, paying the misleading news media to write good stories on them and bad stories on their opposition. They are sick in the head!