re: How desperate are companies for workers? Target will now pay 100% of college tuition

Free market? Are you high?

First, it wasn't the free market that caused the recent desperation for workers. If that was the case, then we would have seen a massive rise in wages throughout the 2000s and 2010s nothing has changed from then to today in the 2020s except for one thing.

It was the global pandemic, pre-existing inhumane working conditions, and the fact that workers finally had a little wiggle room to negotiate with their bosses because of the raises to unemployment benefits and the stimulus checks. Otherwise, they simply wouldn't be able to "afford" to quit their jobs and companies would have kept their slave wages at the exact same rate as before.

Second, no shite Sherlock. Of course, colleges are more expensive because of government assistance. That's the whole point, they increase taxes to fund those programs, yet have no laws whatsoever that limit how much a school can charge for tuition. Hence, all that money gets taken directly from the American people and is placed right into the hands of the colleges. This is no mistake, it isn't idiocy on the part of the government, it's deliberate. The federal government is bought and paid for by the wealthy, it doesn't take a genius to figure this out. It's the same retarded argument people use for not increasing the minimum wage. Of course, prices would increase, that's what happens when you try to fix a symptom instead of the disease.