tired blipA quote I saw today on another social that will now live rent-free in my head forever:
"No one wants to work" is just "no one wants to date nice guys", but for employers.
Nicole Parsons"No one wants to work" really means an employer who doesn't want to pay a living wage, ignores how corporate greed influences inflation, and wants to offshore or automate jobs anyway.
Dangandblast@Npars01 @klardotsh I like enthusiastically agreeing with the "nobody wants to work anymore" boomers, sharing stats on who's actually dropping out of the labor force (largely: older people), and expressing my disappointment that senior citizens aren't stepping up to be line cooks and minimum wage laborers.
Lots of people "dropped out" of the workforce during the pandemic.
At least 1.17 million Americans died of covid & the excess death rate remains high from long covid.
Walmart & McDonald's doesn't appear keen to hire 85 year old dementia patients or provide health care or affordable day care for women with school aged children who are exposed constantly to covid.
What they mean is there is a shortage of young, able, and fit workers willing to work these low wage jobs
@Npars01 @klardotsh yes, they *mean* "kids these days (anybody younger than me) is lazy something something bootstraps," but the "great resignation" of younger people quitting work was largely quitting awful work for other work. Those dropping out entirely and not coming back (especially after childcare reopened) have largely been the 65+ crowd. https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-bulletin/how-many-workers-are-truly-missing-from-the-labor-force/
How Many Workers Are Truly “Missing” from the Labor Force?
As of March 2022, the U.S. labor force participation rate remained one percentage point below its pre-pandemic level. After accounting for the effects of slower population growth and the aging of the population in the past two years, I estimate that around 2 million workers are missing from the labor force. Individuals age 65 and older, whose participation rates remain persistently below pre-pandemic levels, constitute most of the missing labor force.