Oberal
Robert ReichAmerica doesn’t have a labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.
Ponygirl@rbreich True dat!!
Patrick Gillam@rbreich
Let’s include an affordable housing shortage, too. Where I live, people cannot house themselves on the wages being paid.
Let’s include an affordable housing shortage, too. Where I live, people cannot house themselves on the wages being paid.
jack@patrickgillam @rbreich Oh yes, that. And not only in the #USA, it's all over the #EU - all the larger cities in #Germany, like #München, #Berlin, #Köln, #Frankfurt and many more. In #Paris and #Amsterdam it's been like this for decades, but now there's also #Milano. #Lisboa is catching up quickly. Where there's #work and prosperity, there's #gentrification and a #housingcrisis. While the countryside is dying, the city hipsters are looking for waiters, maids, teachers...
Richservo 
@patrickgillam @rbreich we can afford the house we rent but even at a relatively high wage I can barely save anymore with how expensive things like groceries and ultilities have gotten. I even got a 9% pay bump this year.
Sabaah Z Jauhar-Rizvi@patrickgillam @rbreich the cost of housing is becoming unreasonable. Studio apartments for a grand. Houses with under 600 square feet selling for $200K or more. This is unsustainable and ridiculous.
Brett@rbreich I’m pretty sure we do also have a labor shortage since we’re at least 600k workers lighter due to covid death and that number increases if you include long covid disability. This labor shortage is our opportunity to ensure we get those benefits though. The strikes will continue until benefits improve.
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MikeDunnAuthor@rbreich
And an excess of billionaires!
And an excess of billionaires!
JohnW@rbreich America has a compassion for Americans, shortage.
LG Media@rbreich A working people over 40 shortage.
TazorWell, you did lose a million people to Covid.. some of them were in the working age range.
costrike@rbreich We have an empathy deficit.
Mr. Bruno 
@rbreich there's a shortage of CEOs with even a little empathy for people.
@rbreich I have a theory and wonder if there is data to support it. The dramatic inequality in wealth allows a certain percentage of the labor pool to remove themselves. If I’m a teacher or nurse married to someone earning a couple hundred K in tech, I can quit when the work environment sucks. Dual incomes can retire early. And of course, we have prevented a lot of immigrants from entering.
WestTexasJesus@rbreich there is definitely no shortage of capitalist pigs and their political minions who carry out their agenda by passing favorable legislation that only helps them.
@rbreich True. I am finally feeling like I can survive financially at my new job where I make a decent living wage.
Cosmic Tentacle @rbreich Many big businesses respond to that by bringing in H1B indentured servants.
Ms Kelly@rbreich That sounds ok I guess, but since all our money is being snorted up Zelensky's nose and he is blackmailing Biden
JustAnotherWizard@kadams316 You are an idiot.
Catherine is not complacent@rbreich the new Gilded Age where the wealthy treat the rest of us as less than and disposable.
Olav@rbreich and a respect shortage, and a value shortage. a lot of the other things could be minimized if employers embraced these two tenants
realamy@rbreich there is also a labor shortage
Baby boomers were taken out of the work force in large numbers by Covid
There just aren’t enough to fill those roles from younger generations, even if they wanted to
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Shortage flash politics
Shortage flash politics
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David W. Jones@rbreich
And a severe *non-shortage* of corporate greed.
A chain restaurant in our area closed their location, blaming Hawaii's high cost of housing.
They said *nothing* about their refusal to pay a living wage.
Our cost of living is high, yes, like San Francisco. But our payscales are much less than that of the Bay area.
@elaine
And a severe *non-shortage* of corporate greed.
A chain restaurant in our area closed their location, blaming Hawaii's high cost of housing.
They said *nothing* about their refusal to pay a living wage.
Our cost of living is high, yes, like San Francisco. But our payscales are much less than that of the Bay area.
@elaine
Indy Richard 🏴@rbreich The US just like here in the UK seems to be suffering from the effects of too many greedy people. How does it benefit society when someone worth billions opposes fair wages for poor people?
#WealthInequality
#WealthInequality
Lorrie B@rbreich Baby boomers were good consumers and brainwashed into being wage slaves; mea culpa! The next generations are smarter; who wants to work for some greedy corporation that will pit you against other people with similar skills and encourage you to deprioritize your family and your own quality of life? It's absolutely absurd from an enlightened point of view. Kudos to anyone who wants to be productive but doesn't want to be enslaved by capitalism.
O’denney@rbreich and a corporate greed problem.
Not for those who pimp of wars, poverty & making the, Have nots' grovel for less. George Bernard Shaws Proposition, 'Requiring the Guillotine. Is making more sense every day in every way.'
Cadey Bunny@rbreich there's gonna be a labor shortage if america just lets its workers get cripplingly physically or mentally ill
Mars Uribe@rbreich I wonder if maybe there is no shortage of any kind? Like in the Matrix movies around the realization of reality vs the made up world....And really it's not that there is any shortage of food, money or other resources... Rather, it might be that a tiny % of humans hoards a too massive a share of said resources, and then proceeds to convince the rest of the world that "things are fair", or "oh well, work harder in life", etc. I think the wool has been pulled over our collective eyes.