Why is there suddenly an extremely severe shortage of workers all over the world?

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If unemployment had skyrocketed during the plandemic, where did all the people desperate for work go? Help wanted signs are all over the place and wages are rising to attract workers, but few people are interested. If these people simply disappeared then where did they go and how come we never heard the slightest rumor about this conspiracy? Someone somewhere had to have seen something. You cant pull something off like millions of working class people vanishing without someone seeing something.

a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

Yes, you can, simply by controlling the flow of information. No media outlet is free from the corporate agenda, no independent news outlets. When that is done you can control the narrative.

In the US is was stimulus checks, student debt pause, and child tax credits. The student debt pause has been extended and Romney is trying to restore the child tax credit payments.

So the government is creating a welfare state by pausing peoples biggest debt and paying people a few hundred dollars a week per child.

a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

Companies don’t want to train. Not even trades. Just glancing at a newspaper. Electrician helper/apprentice. 2 years experience bending conduit. Plumbers helper, 1 year relevant experience. It goes on and on. Don’t even expect an office job with just college either.

Then clean criminal convictions. Being a stupid kid and getting arrested for something dumb screws you over later. Immaculate driving record. I don’t know a single person with one.

Then trade helpers are 10-15 dollars an hour. It’s 15 an hour with 40 hour weeks at McDonalds.

Blame the companies and not wanting to train and pay decently.

As for restaurants and the such. That’s society’s fault. Everyone wants to downgrade cooks and waiters and the such. Now you can cook at home.

a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

One is not unemployed if they are not eligible to collect unemployment. Generally after 2 years. That is how they present the number. The better question may be how so many no longer receiving the benefit are getting by.

Seems like the pandemic made people learn they do not need to work full time and they got spoiled. The kids moved home and won't work anymore because what is the use, with the rising costs, they can't get ahead. The jobs that don't require any actual work to do, like technology jobs, there is no shortage of workers in those, they can create video games and make money posting...plus they think they can get rich investing in stuff like bitcoin and investments...which will soon colapse. Money is not actually real....it has very little value. It only has the value that people give it...which means that we soon will have a worldwide collapse of the financial system...that is dangerous.

originally posted by: drewlander
a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

One is not unemployed if they are not eligible to collect unemployment. Generally after 2 years. That is how they present the number. The better question may be how so many no longer receiving the benefit are getting by.

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In fact, for the first time ever, the majority of 18- to 34-year-olds now live at home with their parents, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.

As of July, 52% of millennials were living in their parents’ home, up from 47% in February, according to the Pew analysis of Census Bureau data, surpassing the previous high hit in 1940, when 48% of young adults lived with their parents.

“In a very short space of time, we are now at levels last seen during the Great Depression,” said Richard Fry, a senior researcher at Pew.

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Between February and March 2020, some 2.6 million young adults moved home with their parents. By the middle of 2020, the majority (52%) of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 lived with at least one parent — and the children of rich parents were the most likely to return home.

Same here, all I hear is labour shortages, interestingly, my friend applied for 4 different jobs last week. Did not get even one bite. Seems odd, he is normal respectable looking dude. I'm not sure whats going on.

I have to enter the workforce soon, as soon as I get past some health issues. At my age, it's pretty intimidating..the whole process. Been doing my own thing for the last 18 years, right now I have a part time gig, just not enough..bummer because I love the place. Covid basically crushed my old gig, couldn't financially hang on. Things really suck here.

Why is it that if the economy is a wreck people are looking for people to hire? Good question.

I think it is one of a number of ripple effects of the pandemic. Some people found out they can sponge off their parents some more. Some people found out they have enough to "coast" on and don't have to work. There was a good amount of free money floating around with extended unemployment and such. Some people are still worried about being around other people.

Big things like the job market have some inertia, they don't tend to change real fast. A lot of people left the market. In time they will return.

a reply to: infolurker

In rural and farm communities it isnt considered odd to have three generations living in one home or on one property.

a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

It can also be a cultural phenomenon, rural or urban. High or low economic status.

Not everyone has a "get the hell out of the nest" outlook.

For me it was, "I want out of the nest now!" But that was a different time.

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a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

RE: www.worldometers.info...

Covid has removed 6.4 million people from the work force. That exacerbates the labor shortage.

i loved that texas restaurant owner
faced with fines for having a work force over 100 workers that weren't vaxxed
he fired all the ones who were vaxxed to reduce his workforce to under 100 with no fines
" someone has to lookout for the unvaxxed " he said and
" those vaxxed ones into such tyranny can find jobs elsewhere "
he then gave his workforce a raise as they'd have to step up a lil more

no need to say most of these problems are vaxx related
as it's clear as heck to see

a reply to: PassiveSeeker

Immaculate driving record. I don’t know a single person with one.

Never had 1 ticket, my dad either, we are like unicorns.

a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

Because of the Globalists Deliberate Collapse of our Present Societies leading to Depopulation of the Planet . Madness Is what Madness Does.....

I was laid off in 2014 after working in IT for ten years. Spent 2015 to 2018 looking for work with 100's of applications, a few interviews that I could tell were bogus or a free consultancy .

The internet advertised 1000s of jobs in IT during those years. I would put in an application, follow up. Didn't hear anything else. Many companies were just getting a pool applicants they could draw from if a contract came through, which they never did.

I was hired in late 2018 doing part-time IT work, which led to full-time by mid 2021. IMO, the media controls the economic outlook to keep the precious stock market ticking constantly up-ward.

What irks me the most is when a company won't pay relocation expenses for employees. Many sell the company to a competitor and the company executives walk away with 100's of millions of dollars.

originally posted by: PassiveSeeker
Blame the companies and not wanting to train and pay decently.

No, blame the lazy good for nothings who live by mobile phones and tech who thought they could make a fortune wearing a badge from school or college without ever actually working hard to invest in themselves beyond their aspirations.

You get out what you put in and starting salaries are often seen as bad because many people feel they deserve more without the investment of their own time and energy, especially if it means getting their hands dirty.

Big tech, bad education systems and bad parenting predominantly did this I think. No wonder there is a cull going on.

Nobody is born special in common reality.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: PassiveSeeker

Immaculate driving record. I don’t know a single person with one.

Never had 1 ticket, my dad either, we are like unicorns.

Some only see themselves in a rear view mirror, not the trail of destruction.

a reply to: SeriouslyDeep

Some people close to retirement simply retired early, immigrants either went home or weren't able to enter the country.

Young people started up etsy stores or twitch streams.

Women started up only fans sites or decided that if they reduced their spending they could stay at home with the kids while their husbands supported the family.

Plus all kinds of other things.

Round here companies don't want to train anyone, they expect you to come ready, so there's not shortage of skilled laborers, only if skilled laborers looking for something new.

We've also got a problem with companies refusing to pay a living wage, lots of openings but they're all garbage. Long hour, terrible pay and no real chance for promotion. The kind of things that college students used to do in the summer, but the companies want you to do for the rest of your life. The kind of thing where you spend half your pay on bus fares just getting there. Even the illegals don't want to do it.