re: The workforce shortage is real and ridiculous

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This is dumb.

The government can print money. Small businesses cant compete with that. You cant keep telling them to cut profit by raising wages and keep increasing taxes abd regulations on them. They cant survive.

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It is not dumb. The other businesses are operating inside the same system with the same rules. Hyperinflation is coming but that doesn’t eliminate the value of capitalism.

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Going on 10 weeks searching for a receptionist Can find someone to answer a phone for $18 an hour

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Let's say the reason there is a labor shortage is because people are getting unemployment benefits. That is a very tiny part of the reason, but lets pretend it's the entire issue, like so many of the reductionists on this board like to do.

If you're truly offering $18 an hour to just answer phones, that's almost $200 more weekly than the extended unemployment benefit. Why would a person willing and able to work pass up an opportunity to make more money with the possibility of learning a new skill and maybe even getting benefits that go along with full-time employment? Proof of employment to get an apartment or finance something is sometimes enough for people to seek out employment. You think that you can't fill your position, with all of the extra value on top of listed remuneration because "people are lazy"?

If we can agree that people respond to incentives, it's pretty simple to see that you're having issues finding someone to fill your offered position because of market forces that extend beyond unemployment benefits provided by the government.

I'm not saying there are no people out there content to ride out unemployment as long as possible. I'm saying that blaming lazy people for not being able to fill a position is just as lazy as the people you're accusing.

They’ve never been appealing, but they are required for certain industries to work and now that someone else is paying them to not work and the federal government is saying you cannot be evicted, there is no incentive to work.

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Going on 10 weeks searching for a receptionist

Can find someone to answer a phone for $18 an hour

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people can get that being a virtual assistant at home in their pajamas now so driving to an office becomes a less desirable way to make the same money.

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just had a 19yo college student balk at $28/hr cash, 32hr a week guaranteed, 4 days m-Thur.

to sit at my house with my wife and watch my 9month old while my wife does zoom meeting for work. Offered 2 weeks paid vacation as well,

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She could probably sense the drug addiction on you

As a small business owner I was lucky to keep my staff from pre pandemic. We offered everyone a $3 an hour raise, and an extra week of paid vacation. Yes my profit margin is down because of this but I’d rather sacrifice that than losing staff.

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just had a 19yo college student balk at $28/hr cash, 32hr a week guaranteed, 4 days m-Thur.

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a 19 yr old turned down 45K salary cash?
to babysit?

he/she didn’t like yer vibe bruh