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TaKun782 posted...

Its no labour shortage TC. Its a wage shortage. Not only that. But I dont blame these people who left all these shitty jobs for shitty pay, and just no benefits at all... you cant call that a life. You also cant call it a life when you get that one place that requires you to work nearly 60 hours a week. On holidays, etc. Theres a lot of stuff wrong there when you have no amount of time to live, but spend all that time working...

I don't think it's a wage shortage so much as it's a VALUE shortage. Back in, like, 1950 getting $15 an hour would have been REALLY good but things were so much cheaper back then. Even in the 2000's $15 an hour would have still been very nice. Yet we're hitting a point where goods and services (especially housing) are spiraling out of control and 15 an hour just doesn't go that far at all. Most people try to live in cities where rates are stupidly high and many have no choice if they want to work (though this will likely change due to remote work). Supply of goods is extremely limited now meaning that those who have money are finding that the same amount from a year or two ago simply goes a lot less. I don't know how anyone believed that inflation would go away cause I can't think of a single instance ever where that's happened. Simply put, thanks to a multitude of factors, we're looking at the start of a hyper-inflation spiral and it's not going to be fixed any time soon. The only hope is that an increase in supply and accessibility will cause a drop in prices, but that's very unlikely. Especially with the upcoming trucker shortage meaning that, even if supply does increase, transporting it will be next to impossible.

It's basically like a person bleeding out through massive blood loss and starvation due to a medical condition that prevents them from getting nutrition. Even if you can staunch the blood loss they will still struggle to survive simply because no matter how much they eat they don't get the nutrients they need. The only hope for survival is to find a work-around to get the nutrients into the body to, hopefully, get them into a state in which the actual problem can be addressed.