It still works. It just means, letting the deliveries go idle is cheaper than raising wages. For all their complaining, it doesn't sound like they're in a big

It still works. It just means, letting the deliveries go idle is cheaper than raising wages. For all their complaining, it doesn't sound like they're in a big hurry to get those shipments underway: "but for most of us, the resulting delays are mostly an inconvenience." Typically employers will always complain about not finding cheaper labor. That doesn't necessarily mean there's a big enough problem. Once the problem becomes big enough, they will need to raise wages or find ways to automate it: eventually they'll do whatever is cheaper.