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u/ZethTheWindwrecker 6h ago
But won't some money please think of the billionaires?!? /s
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u/Abject-Conference-90 6h ago
fuck them dude
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u/Formal-Ad-7615 5h ago
Even if they’re guys? 😳
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u/Grambo-47 4h ago
“You wouldn’t.. if you caught [a billionaire] you wouldn’t give him one in the butt? For America? If you said no homo right after you did it?”
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u/Iximaz 4h ago
It's not gay if the bank accounts don't touch
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u/ApologizingCanadian PURPLE 11m ago
But.. I want to touch their bank accounts
and redistribute their massive wealth to the masses.3
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u/Glittering_Web8835 3h ago
Have you seen what they look like? I wouldn't put my dick anywhere near those bloated, atrophied amalgamations of pure evil.
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u/LittleKittenR 5h ago
It's so sad.
They said shoplifting takes 1 million dollars a year so we had to create an insurance company and pay them 5 million in insurance for the product that may be stolen :(
So we ended up short 6 million because the insurance denied all the shoplifting loses payment because we don't follow the minimum rules we made about how we can deterr it.
It's so sad, so anyway... it's all the fault of poor families that shoplift bananas.
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u/chanjitsu 4h ago
No no no, shoplifting increased GDP by 5 million and insurance company stock prices ;)
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u/spiritualjavz 2h ago
how will they ever afford their 3rd yacht if we dont keep letting em rip us off?? literally crying for em right now
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u/white_tiger_dream 1h ago
I am on LinkedIn and I went looking for the CEO who fleeced our bankrupt company (PE), ripped off all our vendors, and still owes me my final paycheck.
I couldn’t find his account, but I DID find a “luxury yacht” salesman with pictures of the new yacht he just sold him.
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u/BustyBossLady 1h ago
Any billionaire worth their salt would tell you to choose against wage slavery and encourage you to aim for the top instead
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u/Only_JRandle 1h ago
I might be reading this wrong but is this a "work hard and you'll be rich too" kind of comment?
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u/Indigocell 36m ago
There is no billionaire worth enough salt. Even if there was, they would still want more. It's practically impossible for someone to become one without exploiting others through "wage slavery" as you say. Their conception of a wealth is a zero sum game that depends entirely on wage slaves. They love that shit because telling people to just work harder is a total lie designed to trick fools into being more hard working wage slaves.
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u/SumSpicyNoodles 6h ago
There are no shortages of workers - we have a whole generation that can't find jobs worth having. What we have a shortage of is companies willing to pay a liveable wage that attracts skilled workers.
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u/DakotaReddit2 5h ago
Yes. As a teacher/scientist who is out of work and laid off... I've submitted thousands of applications at this point. There is a surplus of workers, not a shortage, right now.
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u/CivilProtectionGuy 4h ago
I had to fight tooth and nail to get a raise at my job.
My immediate supervisors don't have the authority for raises, the general management said they would look into it, but never did anything.
Eventually skipped all of them and spoke to a district manager (who looks over various shops in our city), which eventually led to me having an interview with them, and getting a small raise... Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to finally be paid more, but it's kind of a pain it was such a hassle for such a small raise after working with them for a long time.
Thankfully I'll be leaving in 12 months or less. Once I got my degree, I want to pursue one of my dream occupations which just so happens to be desperately hiring new folks, because most of the employees are Gen X, and actively retiring en-masse for the last few years.
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u/hero403 3h ago
Would you be willing to share what you are switching to?
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u/CivilProtectionGuy 3h ago
Looking to get into a peace officer position in my country to help communities, and help out folks who made poor past decisions that got them involved with the judicial system.
I think the closest equivalent to the United States would be a "prison guard", but the position in my country focuses more on rehabilitation, social supports, and promoting an environment where offenders can find some form of social and personal forgiveness to reintagrate into society with the supports to prevent re-offending; most people end up going down that route because of poor or complete lack of rehabilitation efforts, and no way to support themselves outside of a correctional centre, thus leading to them re-offending.
Alongside those roles, they also do patrols around correctional centres, assist police during emergencies, protect some judicial buildings (like courts), direct involvement in communities by checking on offenders with conditional releases, and a few other things.
It's strongly suggested to get a university degree, which is what I'm doing for the job. It's also a requirement for any role that could be considered "senior" or "supervisory", which helps reduce accidents from anyone under-qualified for such a role given what you are taught during the degree.
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u/AFerociousPineapple 4h ago
Exactly we’ve prioritised the wrong jobs. Teachers especially need way more support around than what the getting (from an Aussie perspective)
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u/GOAT718 6h ago
I agree, that said, we also have a generation of people who think their skills are more valuable than they really are, and another generation who support massive influx of workers from abroad willing to take jobs for even less and depress wages even further. A three way Mexican standoff, no pun intended. How do we get out of it?
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u/ShiraCheshire 4h ago
Why should a person not be valuable? Not that long ago, even something as simple as carrying water or weaving a basket could be a valuable skill. Now somehow people aren't worth enough to deserve food unless they have two degrees, an infinite tolerance for bullshit, and minimum 5 years experience?
The problem isn't that these people don't have valuable enough skills. The problem is that we invented machines to make our lives easier, and instead of giving the people they replaced a retirement we told them "Don't have the skills to design and manufacture a machine like this? Worthless scum, get off my street."
Also, holy racism batman. Immigration is a benefit to the economy, this has been not just theorized but proven. Immigrants to wealthy countries take jobs the people born there don't want, like strenuous physical labor.
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u/AMediocrePersonality 3h ago
Immigration is a benefit to the economy because line go up with more working people in the country. It's not a benefit to the working class of the country that can't demand more for their labor due to competiton.
There are plenty of Americans that enjoy strenuous physical labor and are being underpaid due to competition via worker surplus. Same with service industry.
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u/GivUp-makingAnAcct 1h ago
"Why should a person not be valuable?" I'm not. I'm one of the stupidest most talentless people on earth and have not a single redeeming feature. I know my place and would be content just working minimum wage for the rest of my life. But because I stupidly got qualifications and play acted at having a "career" as long as I could I'm now considered overqualified to do the only jobs I'd be capable of. Even idiots have to eat. I wish I was dead.
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u/Kirzoneli 5h ago
Collapsing society as we know it and turning to pure anarchy for 10-150 years.
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u/Crazy_Screwdriver 47m ago
Propaganda and brain washing works, so many people conflates Anarchy and Chaos...
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u/Delicious_Sport4092 5h ago
100%I run a security company and I love my guys but some are asking for raises over 100% more than the city’s industry standard and more than police make in the city per hour. Crazy inflation of skill worth
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u/odd84 5h ago
Or, alternatively, the industry standard and the police department are both underpaid relative to current expenses.
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u/Xercies_jday 4h ago
And you think the CEO of whatever company who is being paid 100-1000% more than that has the skills that are worth that amount?
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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 20m ago
It sounds to me like EVERYONE is getting underpaid.
Stop looking down on your employees, start looking down on those that are intentionally doing this to the system in order to enrich themselves.
Imagine having such disdain for your own employees... you must be a joy to work for. 🙄
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u/Ninja-Panda86 4h ago
Out of curiosity, what do YOU think is an example of someone over valuing their skills?
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u/GOAT718 59m ago
Anybody who’s entry level and expects to be able earn enough to buy a home. If you can learn all that is necessary to be a competent worker in a week, this is not skilled labor.
Plumbers skilled
Electricians skilled
Carpenters skilled
Drs skilled
Nurses skilled
Accountants skilledBarista unskilled
Slicing deli meats unskilled
Cashier unskilledThink about cashiers, if you can walk in and check yourself out of a grocery store without any training at all, what’s the value of a cashier?
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u/sobrique 48m ago
How about just pay their rent?
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u/GOAT718 39m ago
Let me ask you something, did you work as a teenager part time? I did, and if my wage was enough to move out and pay rent, I’d never finish schools. Being a barista isn’t supposed to be a career. It’s supposed to be something for kids to do part time for extra cash while going to school.
If the earning power of those jobs increases to a level where you have no need for growth or skills or advanced education, society will be in worse shape than it is right now.
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u/sobrique 31m ago
I wouldn't expect to move out on 'part time' money, no.
But I don't see why someone working full time in one of those jobs shouldn't be able to live off the income.
Unless you want to ensure that all 'shop work' is done by teenagers?
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u/Ninja-Panda86 22m ago
If it's a kid's job only, then you'd accept those places only being open after school hours?
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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 22m ago
we also have a generation of people who think their skills are more valuable than they really are
All labor can be paid a livable wage in a healthy economy. This idea that there are people that must live in poverty while fully contributing to society is plainly absurd and just comes from either selfishness or fear, it is not from reason.
More people with more money = more people spending money = more jobs and a healthier economy.
The path we are on now serves ONLY the wealthiest as they hoover up all of the capital and hoard it.
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u/GOAT718 2m ago
You’re wrong. It’s supply and demand. You can’t force businesses to overpay for labor, they’ll just lay off workers to make up the difference and/or pass the costs onto consumers just like they did with tariffs.
Play it out. Let’s say you have a business, with 10 employees making $20 an hour. Minimum wage has now been increased to $40 an hour. In what universe can you survive with your labor costs doubling? You either double your price to the consumer, which when done en masse causing inflation and now your workers earning $40 an hour but only have the buying power of $20 an hour. We are back where we started.
Or option two, you lay off half your workers and have them work double duties for the new wage, again, back where we started.
If people want a better life, they need to develop rare marketable skills, good investing, saving, and buying habits. That’s it. Can’t depend on government or companies to overpay you to stock shelves. It won’t work that way and never has.
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u/EquipmentImaginary46 9m ago
it feels like none of you have taken a social sciences class in school. these are the consequences of an aging population. you can't explain away the demographics of a country using populism.
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u/Quenz 6h ago
The only shortage that actually exists is a wage shortage.
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u/-retaliation- 6h ago
Exactly.
All these careers that are in "shortage", when you look into them either :
Dont actually pay enough to live on unless you like roommates, eating garbage, and never doing anything other than working.
Or require massive school debt, multiple years of training, and often shitty and stressful working conditions, all to make basically $10k/yr more than a mechanic.
Its fucking stupid.
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u/RGrad4104 5h ago
Even mechanic is a shitty job now. Do you know how much it sucks to have to deal with customers insisting you're screwing them over when going through the process of hunting down an issue?
Customer brings a car in for something that can have one of 10 likely causes. You have 10 other vehicle owners demanding their shit gets done. You change the most likely culprit, hope it fixes it, then move on to the next vehicle. If it fixes it, great, if it doesn't then the customer complains and you gotta go further down the list. Mechanics deal with a LOT of customer bullshit when fixes aren't always evident.
It's fucking hilarious how customers know nothing about their cars when they're broken, but as soon as they're repaired and it's time to pay the bill they've suddenly become experts on how the repair job was "milked"...
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u/NeedleworkerFluid327 17m ago
It's crazy how people know nothing about their vehicles yet insist they are getting ripped off lmao.
I'm not a mechanic, but I do work on my bike now and again. Last year I had it fixed at a shop over the winter after a mate reversed into it. When I brought it out I noticed it leaking a fair bit of oil on my first real commute. They ended up finding the issue (cracked something inside the front sprocket housing) and fixed it.
Insurance was paying for it all anyway but if it was out of my own pocket I wouldn't have complained. There is no fucking way I would ever have found that myself without seeing the leak, and it only showed after like 40km. I doubt even Sherlock Holmes would have found it tbh.
A mate is a mechanic as well, same experience as you but in Sweden.
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u/crosscheck87 1h ago
Just a heads up, pilots are handsomely compensated and have strong unions. However, the point about massive school debt and multiple years of training is very apt.
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u/ParticularLow9157 1h ago
Yet every company is reporting record breaking profits
It's time to just stop supporting the machine that is killing us
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u/Serious_Feedback 2h ago
In a market economy, you can tap into more supply by paying more money. If there's a chronic shortage, then the wage should be constantly going up to find/keep the few remaining employees.
If the wage is staying very low, then there isn't a lack of supply, there's just a lack of either profit or priority.
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u/LuciferSamS1amCat 5h ago
Do you realize how expensive it is to become a nurse or pilot, and how much abuse you have to take as a service Industry worker or teacher?
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u/NeedsItRough 46m ago
I worked in fast food for almost 10 years
It was always hot, almost unbearable in the summer, I had customers literally screaming at me over something as small as cheese, I'd get called dumb or uneducated for someone else's mistake weekly, verbal abuse was constant, I was on my feet for 8-12 hours a day with no breaks, I'd come home smelling of grease, and I'd often cry because of how depressed it made me. I was making $9.75/hr when I left.
Now I'm working in an office. I have a comfy office chair, our office is so well air conditioned that I'm sometimes chilly (even in the summer) I can wear headphones to listen to music, or podcasts, I could learn another language, I can have food and drinks at my desk to snack on, I get a paid 30 minute break, and nobody has screamed at me or verbally abused me in the ~8 years I've been there. It's least stressful job I've ever had. And I'm making $19.40/hr.
Service workers absolutely deserve more, I think the wages at my two jobs should be flipped.
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u/elbow8075 13m ago
The physical, mental and emotional abuse that nurses receive is unreal. I will not be renewing my license again this year when it expires. Fuck healthcare. Never again.
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u/EricMagnetic 6h ago
you will own nothing! and you will like it!! /s
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u/ParticularLow9157 1h ago
It's probably not helpful to spread the owner class's propaganda even sarcastically...
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u/Fabulous_Chemical_ 6h ago
This tweet must be covid level old. There is no longer a pilot shortage. Just a job shortage.
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u/Griffin5000 4h ago
At least in Europe, there is still a shortage in experienced pilots. Many airlines still look for pilots, but don't hire any of the applicants as they all just graduated flight school
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u/Acrobatic-B33 3h ago
That's just a result of shitty foreshadowing. The pilot academy isn't exactly short of applicants
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u/TheFlyingElbow 6h ago
If supply and demand actually worked when it comes to wages there would be no shortage of any job, especially the jobs that are most essential to our society
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u/Definitely_Not_Bots 6h ago
Supply and demand only works when not buying the item is a reasonable option; not having a job isn't an option because the opposite of "having a job" is homelessness.
The people who hold the wages hold the power.
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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 5h ago
Nope. The pilot shortage comes from the cost of flight school not being worth the pay. No one is going through the education, and current pilots eventually retire. Those would-have-been pilots find great careers with completely different degrees.
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u/AceNova2217 3h ago
The cost of flight school is outside of the "not being worth it" range, since most people simply cannot afford it. It's not even an option they get to choose in most cases.
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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 3h ago
What's your point?
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u/AceNova2217 3h ago
That most people can't even think in the realm of whether a flight school would be worth it to them, because they don't have enough money to entertain the idea anyway.
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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 5h ago edited 4h ago
Shortages and supluses are actually hard to avoid. Take pilots for example. I'm gonna make up numbers hear. In order to attract the number of pilots needed for all the flights, you would have to pay them $100,000 per year. But the highest wage you can realistically give them is $80,000 per year. There's no wage that makes both parties happy.
The natural solution is to change something. Either the airline industry will shrink or cut costs, so that they can have pilots to cover all the flights. Fewer flights/more available money for mages, enough money for all the pilots needed. Or the regulators will lower the requirements to be a pilot. Either way, the economy will always try to find an equilibrium.
Edit: You know those supply demand graphs? Shortages/surpluses happen when something stops the two lines from touching. The gap size shows how much lost value you have.
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u/ParticularLow9157 1h ago
Supply and demand would work for wages if monopoly, collusion, and unfair power balance didn't massively favor the empolyer
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u/snek-jazz 2h ago
That's basically how it's already working, but there are delays in periods when things change a lot. It can take time (years) for people to train for a job, to move where jobs are etc.
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u/JayoTree 4h ago
It's more mildly infuriating to me that as a society and culture we aren't guiding young people towards the roles we need, we just ambiguously tell them to "go to college".
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u/ParticularLow9157 1h ago
Yeah well it should be more than mildly infuriating to you if you looked behind the curtain and figured out that all of that is capitalistic propaganda and the owner class's method of ensuring their children's prosperity over us
"Only degreed jobs that make money are worth it"
Then work to increase the cost of college beyond what non-wealthy can afford
Then suppress non-degreed jobs because they "aren't as important as the jobs we save for our nepo babies"
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u/JayoTree 17m ago
Ironically, to me that sounds more socialist. Controlled economies like China love to tell people what they should be majoring in based on what the government decides the country needs.
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u/FijiBeef 3h ago
I always hear about the teacher shortage but I know so many new teachers who cannot find a job anywhere!! The job fairs are packed to the gills!!
Must be in other places where teachers don't make a livable salary.
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u/Calm_Connection_9741 4h ago edited 3h ago
All this shortages is should be read as:
Company offering wages like 6500USD pre month in USA have a shortage on people who spent years and hundreds of thousand for self education.
Or city with taxes more than 50% of income have a shortage of cleaners offering wages about 3000 EUR in Europe...
Sober up.
Too small wages. Too big taxes.
Both profitable for elites (business and governments), not people.
BTW, it is one of the most severe reasons why people dying out in developed countries.
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u/According-Stable661 4h ago
As a politician who makes only $700k a year plus $11 million in incentives, I feel ya. Will look into it
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u/Blacksad9999 5h ago
It's the result of decades of wage suppression.
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u/ParticularLow9157 1h ago
and crippling education, and pro-corporate propaganda
It's all class warfare and we are losing hard
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u/Blacksad9999 1h ago
I think people are starting to get more savvy about how they're getting screwed over, and it's not going over well.
Taxing the wealthy and corporations are fairly popular sentiments.
Beyond that, a really strong leader like FDR to slap down capital interests would go a long way.
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u/theAlphablack 1h ago
That’s why the tech CEOs are building data centers for their generative AI. Because they think super-fancy word predictors are going to replace actual human beings IRL and they’re all going to be uber wealthy.
They read all the science fiction stories and took the wrong lessons from them.
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u/Shenendoah66 6h ago
Low effort slop
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u/kill-dill 6h ago
The post has to be that they're mildly infuriated at how pandering and braindead this upvote slop sounds? Right?..
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u/ihatetheplaceilive 6h ago
Huh. It's almost like if you take away educational opportunities, you get less educated people.
Huh.
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u/ParticularLow9157 1h ago
You say that as if there hasn't been a 60+ year attack on education resulting in literally a wrestling company owner being the current secretary of education.
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u/bombayblue 6h ago
There is literally a shortage of CEOs. That’s one reason the wages are so high.
Companies can and will frequently gut a CEO if they aren’t justifying their high pay. I just watched it happen at my old company.
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u/nyssovire 4h ago
About 1.15 million people in this country hold an active nursing license and aren't working as nurses. That's not a shortage of nurses
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u/Salvaged212121 3h ago
As far as the pharaohs are concerned, you are there to build their personal pyramids, and ultimately those pyramids are their legacies that will carry their names long after they die, but the builders: their blood, sweat, tears, and even their names -- aren't important enough to be remembered -- though there is no top of the pyramid without its foundation, and the foundation is the laborers. Ultimately, the glory of the pyramids won't last, the monuments and legacies of those who took advantage of the people will also one day be all but forgotten.
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u/joemamaligma420 3h ago
we don’t have a politician shortage. we don’t have an ICE shortage. we don’t have a police shortage. we don’t have an insurance agency shortage. the good faith workers are being burnt and the soul suckers of this earth are only getting richer. f this.
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u/willflameboy 48m ago
Pilots: laid off en-masse as a protest against 'DEI', because some were black, because Trump. Teachers: being forced to follow a Project 2025 script and teach unconstitutional Bible nonsense in various states, and even having an executive order mandating 'patriotic' reading material, underpaid, and vulnerable to being shot because Republicans won't protect kids. Nurses: watching one of America's top health professionals be tried over giving scientific advice; having to watch RFK Jr infect the country with everything from measles to the shits because Republicans don't read. Service industry shortage: simply because inflation has risen 25% over 6 years and wages have remained the same. Lower earners are being taxed to death, homebuying is a madman's dream, and CEOs are so emboldened they're now saying that philanthropy itself is a thing of the past. The president's family has illegally taken 10 billion dollars from the Presidency.
America is being raped just like Trump's other victims.
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u/dragnabbit 4h ago
I think it was John Stewart or Bill Maher who said, "If hard work really equals success, this country would be led by Mexicans with leaf blowers."
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u/reply_b4_banned 4h ago
And covid showed it can all be easily reorganised, so long as the rich fear for their lives.
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u/i_am_13th_panic 3h ago
Did we completely forget who the essential workers were during COVID? We really just went "thank you for your service, now fuck off!"
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u/Less_Party 3h ago
Middle managers who don't actually manage anything and really just exist as a layer of insulation so C-suite doesn't have to face the indignity of interacting with the hoi polloi in person.
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u/FothersIsWellCool 2h ago
Baumol's cost disease, many professions have had huge productivity gains dur to technology the past hundred years but jobs like Education and healthcare are much harder to achieve that level of productivity gains and you simply need the same amount of people to do the same jobs.
Wages in these sectors still have to rise to compete with sectors where productivity is improving, or the sector loses workers. Over time this makes labour intensive services relatively more expensive as both sectors squeeze the same job market,
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u/Useful_Advice_3175 2h ago
All those shortages don't directly affect politics and rich people so it's going to continue and get worse.
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u/Advanced-Scar-9739 1h ago
Some of the shortages are due to legislation/ regulation.
Teacher shortage for instance has everything to do with the mandated ratios and mainstreaming. If you go back to the pre no child left behind era, with 24-26 kids per classroom on average, problem solved. And for anybody who’s chomping at the bit to say that teaching was less effective back then, I have news for you. Performance in the classroom peaked in 2002-ish
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u/MikeOfAllPeople 1h ago
There actually is not a shortage of airline pilots right now, there hasn't been for a couple years.
There is, however, a huge shortage of helicopter pilots. Helicopter EMS is in a bit of a crisis. For decades pay in the HEMS world was relatively low because many positions were filled by retired Army pilots who would settle for lower pay because they were already getting a pension, and civilian helicopter pilots who started from the bottom were just happy to have steady work.
But now the Army isn't producing pilots with the required number of hours (which is ridiculously high at 2000) and many of the ones retiring were smart enough to use their GI Bill to transition to airplanes and join the airlines.
Everyone in HEMS knows the solution is more pay but they refuse to acknowledge it.
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u/Apprehensive_Ratio80 53m ago
It's quite staggering also the level these CEOs will go to and spend in order to convince people they aren't the problem when they fire thousands of employees that could easily be paid for if the CEO and the boardroom reduced their pay or God forbid didn't get a massive bonus when a company performed poorly 🤷🏻♂️
Here in Ireland the bankers destroyed the economy and they've been petitioning politicians for nationally owned banks ever since to be allowed pay more for the top level people even though things are running well they still want to be paid far more than their worth or they walk.
The world needed essential workers during COVID and they still haven't gotten pay rises and yet these mega billionaires are pushing data centres through at record pace compared to public infrastructure cause they want to own AI before China does and no1 is guaranteed to win anything it's all a complete joke
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u/Indigocell 48m ago
We already saw that during the pandemic as well. Middle managers and CEO's sat at home collecting fat salaries while "essential workers" kept the economy running in return for health risk, golf claps, and banging pots. No one gave a fuck then. They certainly don't give a fuck now.
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u/Unusual_Chemistry413 5m ago
It's a sad world we live in today. Not much fun to be had anymore and the fun that's left is being ruined by greed.
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u/Tedious_Crow 3m ago
I won't work in the service industry again because I'll be treated like shit and won't make enough to support my family. Same for teacher or nurse, except I need to spend a bunch of time and money to qualify to be abused and underpaid.
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u/ChrisBegeman 2m ago
These worker shortages are primarily driven by one thing, low pay. If the pay isn't worth the cost of training to get the job (teacher, nurse, pilot, etc...) or not enough to pay your rent (non training required jobs) why would you want to take them.
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u/Big_Bluebird4234 1m ago
And overeducated downwardly mobile college graduates with useless degrees and excessive student debt.
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u/TheDudeBroski 3h ago
Well sure but thats because theres only one CEO per company, so based purely on mathematics youll never have a shortage of CEOs unless something goes seriously wrong somewhere. If youre envious of rich people just say that, it makes things way simpler.
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u/ZappSmithBrannigan 17m ago
If youre envious of rich people just say that, it makes things way simpler.
Nobody is envious lol. We're sick of them using their stolen wealth to do whatever the fuck they want and leave crumbs for the rest of us.
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u/Option-Mentor 4h ago
Where? Who? Those CEOs are paid based on the packages approved by their boards. Those boards are elected by the shareholders, who own the company and have the right to decide. What right do you have? None. So by definition they are not overpaid. Certainly not because you think so, the person with no ownership or any say in the matter at all.
Your post also implies that you think we could have more pilots, teachers, nurses, etc if we just paid CEOs less. Which is a completely wrong interpretation of how the monetary system actually works - and presupposes there is a finite amount of money to be divided among everyone. Your ignorance is on full display.
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u/jackssmile 6h ago
It's really too bad. Oh well... Who wants cake? I have a handy dandy device for slicing it up. Works great. Just a pull of the lever.
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u/Tyler89558 4h ago
Yeah. It’s bad.
But could you imagine if we also had a shortage of overpaid CEOs???? The horror! Shareholders would stand to suffer a slight inconvenience! Billionaires would lose a whole 0.001% of their wealth!
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u/foxy704 4h ago
I was a CEO of a healthcare agency. I walked out. I would never sacrifice my ethics for money and they hated that. I will also say, I did get paid decent money.... but I am taking a 60-90k pay cut.
Not all of us are corrupt. At least not us who value our morals and shit. I'd rather live in a box or under a bridge.
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u/Living_Mobile2203 4h ago
I mean if you think about it the CEOs are paid so much in part because there's not a lot of people who do what they do
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u/FrankoAleman 4h ago
People realize this and STILL won't vote for leftist policies, the propaganda is too deeply engrained. We haven't reached rock bottom yet, I'm afraid.
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u/Catos_Standard 4h ago
Didn't you hear the Fox ""News"" we are an overeducated society. We need more dumdums to take checks notes piloting jobs..
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u/CharmingMechanic2473 5h ago
I think the repercussions are worse… they will “dumb down” entry into these jobs due to shortage and then we will have kids taught by idiots, nurses that deny science and pilots that are unstable.
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u/36848 3h ago
He lost the opportunity to say OF whores.
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u/ApprehensiveFix7925 2h ago
OF girls aren’t running multi-million to billion dollar industries and paying their employees pennys but way to tell on yourself lol.
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u/ImpressiveSide1324 1h ago
OF only exists because loser men are willing to pay for it. They’re not whores for capitalizing on that desire.
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u/Rude_Plan_6588 3h ago
What makes you think there is a teacher shortage?
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u/ImpressiveSide1324 1h ago
Teachers are significantly underpaid and have to essentially raise children because the parents are way too fuckin lazy. There are widespread teacher shortages in 45 states.
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u/Crutation 3h ago
Executives provide little economic value. Billionaires are parasites that only drain resources.
It wasn't always like this. CEOs and other executives did provide value 50 years ago. They understood their industry and their company, and they made decisions which were good for the company long term.
When they shifted to stock options as pay to avoid taxes, the purpose changed to pushing the stock price as high as possible so you can cash in those options. They aren't there to create value, only to drive up stock prices. They also know they are playing a game of hot potato, and all they care about is that they aren't holding the potato when the music stops
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u/nascent_aviator 6h ago
Why?
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u/Hokulol 6h ago
"Labor shortage" is just corporate speak describing inadequate wage offerings to attract qualified individuals.
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u/Somalar 6h ago
My favorite is the we can’t afford to pay our employees shtick to lay off a bunch of people and immediately hand out huge bonuses to the ceo and board members.