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CMV: Job shortages that we may be currently experiencing is not because of stimulus.

You hear it all the time. “Everyone got paid to do nothing, and now no one wants to work.”

This is not true. People didn’t want to work long before stimulus. I worked at a grocery store when everything happened, and I was only there because I was a manager. The pay was the best I’d ever had. Unless they were from a different time, every single person who wasn’t a manager was either a dependent or had literally no other choice of jobs.

I was one of the few people in that store, because of my pay scale, that was actually making a relatively solid living. It was people at my level and above that made an okay living.

Unless you came from a time where workers rights were just mildly better, you stuck it out to gain seniority, wage increases, and a retirement plan that has since been changed for the worse, beginner level jobs are absolutely awful.

The only people who didn’t fit this mold were actually working against themselves. I met people who were full-time employees who had been there for 5-10 years having never applied for health insurance, retirement, etc even though they were eligible given their time spent at the company. 

I now work at a restaurant. We do an okay job getting servers because they actually make similar money, albeit from tips, that someone making 20 and hour could make, but every other position is not attractive. I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to come into the kitchen and get minimum wage to work their ass off at a restaurant that’s super busy.

People are taking stimulus/unemployment to try and find something better for themselves. These “beginner” jobs need to pay people enough to live if they want someone to work for them.
gpt
Poverty wage for 2020 was $12.60. Anything less is a sub-poverty wage. The lowest earners should get at least $12.60, so earning above minimum wage, a person would be close to a middle class earner. Imagine the booming to housing, car sales, etc.