I’m really not seeing what advantage all this whining is giving to capitalists
I think it's a knee-jerk "a bad thing is happening to us, the most important people, so obviously people care." Or maybe it's supposed to suggest that we should cut social programs so people get back to work. I don't think it's some cunning propaganda plan.
The biggest thing a labor shortage means is more leverage for strikes, so if they knew what was good for them, they'd cover it up. But capitalism isn't some giant conspiracy of competent people making competent plans to oppress us, it's just a weird system of power distribution that favors whichever organizations make the line go up.
Don't know about across the pond, but here in the US, it is 100% the lazy unemployed people's fault because no one wants to work. There is pretty much no talk of raising wages to attract workers except in an abstract "wouldn't it be nice" way among those of us dying from understaffed bullshit workplaces.
I think it's a knee-jerk "a bad thing is happening to us, the most important people, so obviously people care." Or maybe it's supposed to suggest that we should cut social programs so people get back to work. I don't think it's some cunning propaganda plan.
The biggest thing a labor shortage means is more leverage for strikes, so if they knew what was good for them, they'd cover it up. But capitalism isn't some giant conspiracy of competent people making competent plans to oppress us, it's just a weird system of power distribution that favors whichever organizations make the line go up.
Don't know about across the pond, but here in the US, it is 100% the lazy unemployed people's fault because no one wants to work. There is pretty much no talk of raising wages to attract workers except in an abstract "wouldn't it be nice" way among those of us dying from understaffed bullshit workplaces.
Not like regular people know it's the best time to use that leverage. That is covered up.