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...What do you think progress looks like? Who works in fast food and why? Mostly people who are either don't have any skills to work anywhere else or people wh
by themaninthedark 8y ago
...What do you think progress looks like?
Who works in fast food and why? Mostly people who are either don't have any skills to work anywhere else or people who can't work anywhere else.
When there is high unemployment, high skill workers will be more willing to take a less desirable job in order to survive. As unemployment drops, the high skill workers leave the undesirable job and find better work(more pay, better hours, etc.). Fast food places then have to either raise wages or higher less skilled workers to replace those who have left.
This is progress.
- mjevans 8y agoI think progress in this domain would be requiring equal benefits for equal work (and pro-rated benefits for pro-rated work). The easiest way of doing /that/ is to make social benefits (retirement, vacation time, healthcare) public pools and 'single payer' (but with competition for benefits that provide services like healthcare).
- badbug 8y agoDid you read the article? This isn't progress "Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working conditions — not an unwillingness of workers to switch industries or improve their skills for a job. The trucking industry is instructive here: Trade groups have argued that it is facing a shortfall of 51,000 workers, yet businesses have not yet shown much willingness to cut hours, boost pay, and improve conditions to lure workers in. Indeed, across the economy, companies have shown a remarkable unwillingness to boost wages, with growth barely keeping pace with inflation even as the unemployment rate has dropped to 4 percent"