https://archive.ph/2022.05.30-145611/https://www.wsj.com/articles/summer-worker-shortage-means-pools-camps-closed-11653918501

  • duderium [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've also seen this and agree that it's probably true (most covid deaths were / are older folks). Even if you say they weren't working (which I disagree with), this demographic has most of the country's money, so when they die, their kids get their stuff, and then have less of an incentive to work for shit wages, thus "nobody wants to work anymore."

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Plus retirees watch their grandkids frequently, less of them around means more people looking at daycare and deciding that between being impoverished and paying for daycare, and being impoverished and having one of the parents home with the kids all day, the second one sounds less horrible.

    • HeckHound [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah this is what happened for me, at least. I was working as an EMT and got real burned out during the pandemic and had to quit so I didn’t kill myself. The only reason I was able to do that and survive was because my wife and I both lost a grandparent and we were able to use our inheritance to pay off the last $50,000 on our student loans.