> But if you need annual supplements of labor for the same field over a period of decades, that's not a labor shortage, its price being artificially suppressed

> But if you need annual supplements of labor for the same field over a period of decades, that's not a labor shortage, its price being artificially suppressed Theoretically, couldn't it also be that demand is consistently growing faster than anticipated (even after whatever corrections are made upon discovery that it previously grew faster than anticipated)?