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Originally Posted by Paul T
^^This. People are still working, they are just doing different things. I think COVID caused a lot of people to reevaluate their career choice or take a chance and try other things.
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Yep. A lot of people in the sort of low pay, dead-end jobs looking to be filled now tended to stay there due to inertia - they just didn't change jobs. The pandemic forced them to look for something else and, lo and behold, they discovered they could do better than minimum wage.
What's weird is that this is somehow a problem now. Whenever there's talk of making the minimum wage something people could actually
live on, people come out of the woodwork saying how those jobs aren't
supposed to be held by people trying to make a living. You get some white-haired senator explaining that minimum wage is for high school kids serving milkshakes and burgers to Richie and the Fonz down at Arnolds to save up for college, like they did after WW2.
Well, here we are. The system works!
