On: Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

[PragmaticPulp]

And the employer perspective: Why would I try to compete with unemployment benefits that are ending in a few months?

The situation is temporary and has obviously causal factors that are coming to an end soon (unemployment benefits, school out for summer).

Journalists seem to be going out of their way to ignore these and pretend that something else is happening.

[ajsnigrutin → PragmaticPulp]

The only shitty thing here is, that many companies will fail and close down in the meantime, meaning less jobs openings for people who just lost unemployment benefits.

[varjag → ajsnigrutin]

If there is still demand for their services, other more successful franchises will step in.

[alisonkisk → ajsnigrutin]

That's the creative destruction of capitalism, eliminating net negative value enterprises.

[ryanobjc → PragmaticPulp]

Are you sure?

Those states that cut people off unemployment didn’t see a boost in employment rates. Sooo now what?

[nuker → PragmaticPulp]

> with unemployment benefits that are ending in a few months?

I don't think so. Zeta variant is coming.

[eropple → nuker]

I hadn't heard of this, but the WHO seems to have indicated that this is no longer a variant of interest, let alone a variant of concern.

[wallacoloo → eropple]

I believe it was a joke that, as emergency covid policies are extended a couple months as each new variant arises, and since there will be no end of variants for an endemic virus, that means the policies are actually permanent.

Or maybe I misunderstood.

[nuker → wallacoloo]

you got it right