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Nobody Wants to Work

sun rise

The world is on fire
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Some companies/bosses complain that employees won't take the abuse earlier generations did or won't pay a decent wage rather than paying so little that the employees can't survive.
 

Stevicus

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Or do they?

Yellen: 'You don't have a recession' when U.S. unemployment at 53-year low

"U.S. Labor Department data released Friday showed job growth accelerated sharply in January, with nonfarm payrolls up by 517,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropping to a 53-1/2-year low of 3.4%."

They don't want to work. They just want to bang on the drum all day.

Or maybe they just don't want to do low-paying, underappreciated jobs where they're abused and treated like dirt. Of course, it's not as bad as it used to be. But still, it shouldn't be that much of a mystery as to why people aren't lining up for some of these jobs.

Though, instead of changing their ways and offering better pay and benefits, many employers bypass the U.S. job market altogether and tap into foreign job markets where the labor pool is more impoverished and necessitous, making them easier to exploit and take advantage of.
 

Aštra’el

Aštara, Blade of Aštoreth
Then don’t. Others will.

Just remember, that actions have consequences. You alone are responsible for your own choices and actions. The direction of your life is in your own hands.. more than you know.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
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I believe in the Socialist State that ensures the minimum wage, and a maximum of hours per week

The system is rotten to the core because Capitalists are rotten to the core. Capitalists idolize the profit maximization. So they either fire people or underpay them. Easy as that.
People won't slave away because slavery has been abolished.
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Some companies/bosses complain that employees won't take the abuse earlier generations did or won't pay a decent wage rather than paying so little that the employees can't survive.
Or that they prefer to live off of mom and dads money.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
They don't want to work. They just want to bang on the drum all day.

Or maybe they just don't want to do low-paying, underappreciated jobs where they're abused and treated like dirt. Of course, it's not as bad as it used to be. But still, it shouldn't be that much of a mystery as to why people aren't lining up for some of these jobs.

Though, instead of changing their ways and offering better pay and benefits, many employers bypass the U.S. job market altogether and tap into foreign job markets where the labor pool is more impoverished and necessitous, making them easier to exploit and take advantage of.
How do they pay the bills if they have no job?
 

ADigitalArtist

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How do they pay the bills if they have no job?
Gig culture where they control their own hours, can accept or turn down individual jobs on preference, and are not tied to any long term commitments, and have no boss. From the low end like Uber and Instacart, to other freelance work like daylabor, coaching, etc.

Especially nice for people on disability because they can cut off work just under the threshold of where they would lose benefits.
 

PureX

Veteran Member
Or do they?

Yellen: 'You don't have a recession' when U.S. unemployment at 53-year low

"U.S. Labor Department data released Friday showed job growth accelerated sharply in January, with nonfarm payrolls up by 517,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropping to a 53-1/2-year low of 3.4%."
The problem is that these numbers completely ignore the many millions of Americans that are no longer employable, and no longer looking to be. It also ignores the fact that many of the jobs people are working at will not enable them to remain viable participants in the economy past even the smallest economic set back, like an injury, illness, or even the loss of transportation, or communication. Many are losing their housing as we are only building "mcmansions" these days for the well off (because that's where the big profits are), driving the poor into homelessness and the danger of becoming permanently unemployable.
 
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RestlessSoul

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I will be leaving for work in around 45 minutes, and can confirm that I don’t really want to, thanks very much. I’d rather pay my bills though, and if my job didn’t enable me to do that, then why on earth would I go in every day?
 

RestlessSoul

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They don't want to work. They just want to bang on the drum all day.

Or maybe they just don't want to do low-paying, underappreciated jobs where they're abused and treated like dirt. Of course, it's not as bad as it used to be. But still, it shouldn't be that much of a mystery as to why people aren't lining up for some of these jobs.

Though, instead of changing their ways and offering better pay and benefits, many employers bypass the U.S. job market altogether and tap into foreign job markets where the labor pool is more impoverished and necessitous, making them easier to exploit and take advantage of.


This reminds me of a line in a comedy I watched recently, where a Palestinian immigrant to the US in on the phone to her family back home. “Everything here is made in China” she said, bemoaning the lack of quality goods on sale at the local mall.
 

sayak83

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Then don’t. Others will.

Just remember, that actions have consequences. You alone are responsible for your own choices and actions. The direction of your life is in your own hands.. more than you know.
Is everyone missing the point here??
USA unemployment rate is at a 50 year low. Almost everybody IS working.
 

sayak83

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The problem is that these numbers completely ignore the many millions of Americans that are no longer employable, and no longer looking to be. It also ignores the fact that many of the jobs people are working at will not enable them to remain viable participants in the economy past even the smallest economic set back, like an injury, illness, or even the loss of transportation, or communication. Many are losing their housing as we are only building "mcmansions" these days for the well off (because that's where this big profits are), driving the poor into homelessness and the danger of becoming permanently unemployable.
Are there current statistics showing that a greater fraction of people are now no longer looking for work?
 

PureX

Veteran Member
Are there current statistics showing that a greater fraction of people are now no longer looking for work?
Well, there are now massive homeless camps in most of our major cities, occupied by people that are completely dysfunctional due to drugs, alcohol, and mental illness. And we have many thousands of towns all across the country that only have employment available to about half of their population. Leaving the other half chronically unemployed and falling into drugs, alcoholism and mental illness. The young turn to crime while the rest live in shacks on public assistance that the towns and states can't afford because the rich can bribe their way out of paying taxes. Forcing the middle class to pay for it all, which they cannot do. So we borrow and borrow and borrow while more and more of our citizens die in the streets or in hovels out in the sticks. All of them unemployed and unemployable. And none of them being counted because no one wants to recognize how bad the problem really is.
 

Alien826

No religious beliefs
Are there current statistics showing that a greater fraction of people are now no longer looking for work?

There are more government issued unemployment figures than this one. The one that is typically published is not wrong, but you have to note exactly what it represents, which I think is people actively seeking jobs. Other figures include things like people who have given up looking for jobs, and reflect a higher level of unemployment.

It's all available somewhere on government websites. Pardon me if I don't look it up and quote it. I'm not feeling like working today.
 
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