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We 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 somewher
by michaniskin 6y ago
We 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