Seattle continues efforts to kill jobs...

Considering the phone calls I get on a daily basis from 40K+ people, globally, I think I can safely say, I seriously doubt 90% of the people working in office jobs are actually qualified. Yet, they, and you, presumably, have jobs. So, you question is entirely irrelevant.

Do you have evidence that the labor shortage is due to people being fed up with lower wages?

There is no "labor shortage." The COVID shutdowns and associated events made a lot of people realize that their shit jobs didn't pay enough to be worth the aggravation, so many of them are remaining out of the workforce while searching for something better. Of course, the fly in that ointment is that a lot of them don't have the qualifications for something better, so . . .

One possible outcome is that we end up with a stronger, more efficient economy with a greater percentage of jobs being filled by people who are better fits and who actually want them. Fantasy? Maybe, but why not hope for something good?

I'm asking you to support your argument with...I dunno...facts? If you want to argue whether that statement is correct why not argue with the person who made it?

Or, more likely, with the extra money for unemployment, and not having to work two jobs to make ends meet, they finally had time to undertake the full time job of finding a better paying job.

It's an opinion.

I don't think it's the only reason, but I still hear people blaming it on the enhanced unemployment benefits that "Biden" implemented, and then want to slam my head through the nearest wall.

So, you don't have any facts to back it up?

Or staying home and taking care of their kids. You would think the party of "family values" would approve of that.

That if you pay decent wages, people will be interested in working for you?

The company I work for has decent pay and good conditions and we get tons of applicants, both qualified and not, despite many businesses here making the same complaints those in the US are about a staff shortage.

That makes me sad....

The ex union man in me is inclined to agree, wages are an necessary but not sufficient aspect of retention in the workplace.

Managed to put this in the wrong place...

Update from the ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’ of Seattle:

Its been 11 years since Volp-owned started this thread.
Ample time for starvation to have wiped out large swaths of the population of Seattle.
See any skeletons on the way to work, Anc?
Or is the last remaining job skeleton cleanup?

11 years? Damn.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

$15 an hour just isn’t enough, let’s double it!

If minimum wage had been tied to inflation since it’s inception, that’s where it’d be now.

And…?
I am interested in hearing what you think this tweet means and why you thought it useful to post here.

If government spending wasn’t out of control, there would be less inflation.

What?

What do you think that tweet means?

Why did you post it here?

Actually it was Trumps program that gave loans to businesses that created all the job openings that no one gets interviews for.

Are you thinking of productivity? Because it was enacted in 1938 at 25 cents, which would be about $5.10 today. Its peak buying power was in 1968, at $1.58, which would be $13.24 now.