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Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage
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Once again:
There’s no such thing as a labor shortage. It’s just a wage shortage that they’re gaslighting us about.
Here's the thing I don't understand though. Where are the people? Like they need money to survive.... What are they doing?
There are just more (low paying) jobs available than there are people. The people are just working different, better paid jobs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_job
Suffering from Long Covid. In the UK (and other countries) the number of newly disabled shot up by 600k since 2022. The US is reporting 25% of its population is suffering from Long Covid and the studies show 25% of that (so 6%) are severely unwell and bed and housebound. By the 3rd infection in Canada they found 38% had Long Covid, its about 15% per infection and despite the news saying all is OK only about 5-15% recover.
Labour is disappearing across the world due to Covid in enormous numbers. The last count by the WHO was 110million but the individual studies late last year show a picture of the problem being much larger than that, probably more than a billion people with new health conditions and hundreds of millions who need permanent care. Its bad enough about 30 million have died world wide and still are dying every week at rates 20-40x that of Flu, but all year around, but its disabling a much larger number of people.
Its going to collapse the economy, people that disabled can't work and don't spend money. The problem is its well hidden behind all the profiteering and labour wage suppression from 2008 so a lot of people are thinking its more of the same tactic but the high employment percentages and move to using teenage labour and reduction in skilled workers and shortages in doctors, teachers and other high contact social work shows a picture of a massive societal problem.