https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/worker-shortage-likely-to-last-for-years-because-the-number-of-working-age-people-has-shrunk/
"Shrunk" sure is a fancy way of saying "a statistically significant amount of them were sacrificed to the God of Line Go Up" over the past year
Horrifying that enough died for it to be actually noticeable like this
Line cooks had (one of) the highest fatality rates during the pandemic
Also, after falling immigration, retirements, and lower birthrates. Those are the real problems and oh btw there was a lil' ol' pandemic or whatever
God, I'm never going to get to retire under capitalism. Stuck working manual labour, grinding down my body for shit pay until the inevitable heart attack on the job brings me salvation. Best economic system in history :porky-happy:
I remember in college a professor researching this said that the only reason this wasn’t already happening was because of immigration. They provide the labor replacement necessary for this ghoulish system to survive + are disincentivized to advocate for better pay and working conditions cuz of their status.
This isn’t verified but I bet the last 8 years of anti-immigration laws and rhetoric is now having its effects.
Even when neoliberals have the “solution” to their problems, they gut it.
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