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This is what the labor shortage feels like.

• mindslight 2y ago
  Labor shortage caused by the decades-long capital-manager strike against skilled labor. Invest in educating employees, pay them enough to remain engaged in their job, empower them with some authority, cost of living increases to keep up with inflation plus their own growing value, etc? Nah, keep clipping coins from the productive part of the business so line go up, even though the MBA spreadsheet automatons doing this end up embezzling most of the savings as their own salaries/bonuses. It's endemic across the whole economy. Workers who are essentially nothing more than flesh peripherals for the computer. Commoditize your complement, where the complement of middle management was competent workers. The consequences are just finally hitting industries with traditionally larger margins. If this were about automobiles I'd guess manufacturers would add two more wheels for redundancy (paying the mechanics a dollar an hour more to get the kind of people who care whether nuts are properly torqued would be capitulating). But you can't really do that with airplanes now, can you?