While not a solution to everything wrong with the job market, making posting of ghost jobs a criminal felony would instantly eliminate that problem. It's only d

While not a solution to everything wrong with the job market, making posting of ghost jobs a criminal felony would instantly eliminate that problem. It's only done because it's something that has no downside or cost for the employers and pushes endless hardships on job seekers. It's basically a form of wage theft from people who didn't even agree to work for you. The pearl clutchers will react to this with horror because despite all virtue signaling about how much they care about labor issues, when it comes to there being actual real-world consequences to the capital class for abusing the labor class, all that concern rapidly evaporates, and their false virtue is exposed for what it really is.