Why is there a worker shortage? It’s not because of $300 a month

Let me break this down.

We have over 600k people who have died from covid.

For a year many government officials did all they could to ignore expert scientific and economic advice.

So the nation forced service industry workers to risk their lives for the convenience of people to narrow minded to think of the long term consequences.

So now there is a worker shortage. People aren’t willing to take service industry jobs.

This isn’t laziness. This isn’t because you think $300 a month is keeping people from working. Trust me that’s not a living wage.

We have a worker shortage because people died. People saw loved ones worked to death.

And those 600k dead caused a worker shortage.

They left fear and heartbreak behind.

So yes, you’re going to be inconvenienced. Not because people are lazy. Because people are dead, and others aren’t willing to settle for stagnant wages and rude interactions.

What would have prevented this. Ask New Zealand. A month hard lock down followed by competent contact tracing and we wouldn’t have had to deal with any of this.

But here we are.

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