Who else is of the opinion that the worker shortage is manufactured to get a lower overhead in the form of fewer employees, while at the same time recieving covid relief funds that can be forgiven under the proper circumstances?
Step 1: Take loan
Step 2: Keep wages as low as possible to maintain a skeleton crew and high turnover, encouraging employees to leave (not be fired)
Step 3: Recruit without intent to hire and keep, only with intent to keep proof of hiring practice and to maintain step 2
Step 4: Qualify for loan relief for short term gain, allowing owners to diversify in real estate to perpetuate the rent trap
This was already a corporate strategy before Covid, but since forgivable loans became a thing it's become incentivized, especially for larger operations.
The US is being bought out at an exponential rate; I don't see how democracy will be able to survive when everyone is below the poverty line except the few “Lords” that will be left at the end of this transfer of wealth.
Side Note: Don't forget, ever, that within living generations, the belief that slavery should never have been abolished still exists. Those individuals never gave up their fight- they rebranded, and decided that everyone that wanted equality, deserves equality: the equal right to slavehood under the description of wage earner.