re: Explain to me like I'm 5 why 200,000 LA workers have quit their jobs in 2023

Am I one of these if I resigned from my W-2 job and started my own business?

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The fact is the get up off the couch price has gotten higher especially since the pandemic. Companies are just going to have to pay people more money, or they just automate

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FIFY

We definitely need to stop paying people not to work, and paying those not working to have children, which continues the cycle of govt need.


With that said, why is it like this? Because democrats need more and more voters, so this will continue till we have no working class, and everyone is going to wonder what happened.

Like literally, they literally moved there. Haha

It’s also an aging state. I’m sure some boomers are aging out.

They know reparations are coming soon!

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I propose we take aid away from the unemployed and give it to the working poor. You must work 40 hours a week to be eligible for food stamps, section 8, Medicaid, etc…..

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There has to be a way.

Send the bus to pick them up. Make them sit in a crowded, miserable room all day waiting for a job ticket. Then they get to pick up trash, clean bathrooms, sort recycling, clean parking decks, whatever. Use them for municipal jobs primarily and whatever jobs people submit. Day labor.

Offer child care if that's the bullshite argument they make.

Our whole unemployment system is completely screwed up and designed to punish people instead of helping them.

For example, when I was laid off due to no fault of my own, I went from making close to $200k a year to $275 dollars a week on unemployment. In other words, the unemployment money didn’t even register as income. It did absolutely nothing to help me. If I didn’t have savings, I would have lost the house, the car, everything. As it was, I ended up using the cash to play golf once I got a new job. The system needs to be changed to replace a significant portion of a persons previous income, say 50-75%, for a much shorter amount of time, something like 2 months vs 6+ months. That would enable people to pay their bills short term while seriously looking for a job but not let them milk the system long term. Don’t even get me started on the antiquated weekly certification process where you’re somehow expected to put contact info for 3 job applications a week including the hiring manager names, phone numbers, addresses, etc even though 99.9% of applications are online and don’t contain these things. I just cut and pasted the LinkedIn job posting into all the boxes. Stupid.

The extra slap in the face was that I actually tried to get a temp job while interviewing but couldn’t even get hired at a grocery store, Academy, retail places, etc because even though they are desperate for help, there is no way for a obviously functional 40 year old man to explain that an entry level job is something I wanted to do. They all knew I would leave the second an interview was successful. Costco wouldn’t even hire me to bring carts in from the lot.

Probably instacart, uber, ebay and video games.

All you have to do is have 2-3 kids and not get married.

Then you get free food, money, phone, electric, and discounted housing

You can sleep till 2-3 pm then wear your PJ's to Walmart, get your fat arse in a rascal and go get all your free food.

It's a hell of a life