https://www.ktvu.com/news/millions-of-capable-workers-are-choosing-not-to-participate-in-the-labor-force

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Interesting to see how the capitalist narrative changes. Not long ago it was "once the stimulus payments end you proles are gonna have to get back to work for shit wages". Now that the stimulus has ended and the "labor shortage" has only gotten more acute, the capitalist media sure has shut up quick, haven't they. The narrative now is "gosh this economy is so weird right now no one understands it". They'll probably keep at this line until we hit another big downtown and then it will be "you poors should be grateful to work for peanuts, don't you know how bad the economy is right now?!"

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      the capitalist media sure has shut up quick, haven’t they

      Sadly, they have not. They are, if anything, only getting louder and more obnoxious.

      They’ll probably keep at this line until we hit another big downtown and then it will be “you poors should be grateful to work for peanuts, don’t you know how bad the economy is right now?!”

      I mean, what happens in the next big downturn? I think that's something of an open question. Like, smugly telling people "Get back to work" when there's no work to get back to is a great way to grift your patrons but also a great way to kick off a riot.

      I get the sense that we're going to need a new National Enemy and quick if we're going to be able to channel all the rage from the next Enron collapse or Lehman bankruptcy.