Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
Occasionally, Twitter provides some nice insights in digestible forms (of course, nuance gets stripped).<p>I saw a post recently that said something like &quot;We watch Star Trek and marvel at their post-scarcity world. We are living in a post-scarcity world now, but all the benefits are being funneled by wage slaves up to the 0.1%.&quot;<p>Paraphrased.<p>I was talking with a friend who mentioned that a local pizza place is offering *$18&#x2F;hr* for bussers at the restaurant. To me, that is a great wage for someone to wipe down tables and sweep floors. If they&#x27;re still having trouble filling that, is it because making $37k a year in Texas isn&#x27;t good enough for a no-education, no-experience job? Is it because the high-schoolers who would normally do that aren&#x27;t looking for jobs due to pandemic? Is it the unemployment security and not having to actually do work 40 hours a week?<p>I wonder if the roles of people at restaurants will have to shift, so each person does some of everything, and get paid more, instead of having dedicated low-wage cleaners. Or that profit-sharing and healthcare may be the new model for restaurants.