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  • DaveO3

    This was a really interesting listen.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/…

    Basically – the weird swings in the labor market, the effect of stimulus and unemployment relief, and the winners and losers of both.

    Part of me got quite angry at some of the people who aren't going back to work and are basically collecting more than they would do if they took a job. "i don't ever want to go back to how it was" – IE working for a living.

    But then the other part of me was envious that i didn't use the crisis to change course like some of these people did. I work more now than I ever did, not always for the better.

    I'd be interested to hear what some on here think.

    • A lot of people realised their working life was an endless misery and they weren't being well compensated for it. Will give it a listenPhanLo
    • Exactly that – restaurant workers especially. Working in restaurants / kitchens is intense and the money is wack. Good on them for making change.DaveO
    • Restaurants are struggling to hire staff, and there's a huge rise in customers being nightmare assholes on top of it.monospaced
    • good / indie restaurants need to up their prices and pay staff more. Chain restaurants will either have to do the same or go under.Fax_Benson
    • There are so many fascinating financial / market quirks associated with Covid, interesting times that will be studied for years. Oil / Labor / Cars / HousesDaveO
    • $10 an hour to work in a kitchen is brutal, that guy saying it hadn't went up in 20 years too. Bosses wonder why people don't want their shitty jobs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯PhanLo
    • And with housing prices going up, those workers are finding it hard to actually live near a place they would work.monospaced

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