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Trying to come up with a charitable interpretation of this comment that doesn't just imply tossing nurses from one abusive and under-appreciative hospital syste
by pizza 6y ago
Trying to come up with a charitable interpretation of this comment that doesn't just imply tossing nurses from one abusive and under-appreciative hospital system gig to the next. If that was the case the people who we would have the privilege of calling our healthcare services would all just leave. Market collapse, if you will. Not exactly long-term thinking in the middle of a worsening pandemic.
- michaniskin 6y agoWe don't have the power to toss anyone anywhere. They have the freedom to work or not work, or to change jobs, or any number of alternatives to working somewhere where they don't want to work. If a lot of workers quit then the wages (and prices) rise, and workers move from other jobs to do the higher paid ones. There is only a shortage of labor when there are wage or price controls imposed on the businesses by legislation.
- dragontamer 6y agoThere's a shortage of labor because COVID19 grows exponentially, and there's no possible way we can grow our nursing / doctors labor pool exponentially in a few short months.
- michaniskin 6y agoThe type of work required to monitor covid patients can be done by semi-skilled workers for the most part. The army does this, it works.
- dragontamer 6y agoSince this is similar to another reply you gave me, I'll just note that our discussion basically moved there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213955