How is it that we have 8 billion people on Earth, and yet it seems like almost all businesses and services are short-staffed?

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How is it that we have 8 billion people on Earth, and yet it seems like almost all businesses and services are short-staffed?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The cost of everything has gone up the past couple years, but employers want to pay the same they did before this, and people can’t work that cheaply anymore, so a lot of businesses won’t hire the number of staff they actually need because they’d have more payroll to cover that they don’t want to dole out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The cost of everything has gone up the past couple years, but employers want to pay the same they did before this, and people can’t work that cheaply anymore, so a lot of businesses won’t hire the number of staff they actually need because they’d have more payroll to cover that they don’t want to dole out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’d like to point out some places do it on purpose. Certain large banks will understaff their branches to encourage negative experiences to make a customer consider using online banking as an alternative to visiting. Saves the company money in labor costs while promoting their push towards a cashless society.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’d like to point out some places do it on purpose. Certain large banks will understaff their branches to encourage negative experiences to make a customer consider using online banking as an alternative to visiting. Saves the company money in labor costs while promoting their push towards a cashless society.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because we are programmed to consume. There is way too much going on because we haven’t had to survive for a long time. We live in a stupid life of luxury where we create our own fake problems and have to run a rat race

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because we are programmed to consume. There is way too much going on because we haven’t had to survive for a long time. We live in a stupid life of luxury where we create our own fake problems and have to run a rat race

Anonymous 0 Comments

Either people are out of the labor force (not working at all) or they’re working the wrong/unproductive jobs. If someone is employed ideally, whatever they’re doing at work is creating a lot of products or providing a lot of service. When people are employed inefficiently, they’re either paid significantly more than what they produce, in that they aren’t providing a lot of product or service.

Unfortunately, this is generally reflected in customer facing jobs being short. Most of the productivity gets lost in “more comfortable” jobs- work at home jobs, the office, middle management. There’s more people willing to work for 14 bucks an hour doing call center work at home than working as a lifeguard for the same amount.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Either people are out of the labor force (not working at all) or they’re working the wrong/unproductive jobs. If someone is employed ideally, whatever they’re doing at work is creating a lot of products or providing a lot of service. When people are employed inefficiently, they’re either paid significantly more than what they produce, in that they aren’t providing a lot of product or service.

Unfortunately, this is generally reflected in customer facing jobs being short. Most of the productivity gets lost in “more comfortable” jobs- work at home jobs, the office, middle management. There’s more people willing to work for 14 bucks an hour doing call center work at home than working as a lifeguard for the same amount.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The simplest answer, for the US anyway, is greed, specifically corporate greed.

A few even more specific reasons are wage stagnation, inflation, cost living rising, home prices out of control, broken healthcare system, disproportionate welfare systems, and an aging population that consumes far more resources than they generate.

The answers to these problems are not as simple as waiving one’s hand, but removing or disincentiving greed would go a long way to reducing most of it.

Almost every problem we race is due to greed that values money and power over people.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The simplest answer, for the US anyway, is greed, specifically corporate greed.

A few even more specific reasons are wage stagnation, inflation, cost living rising, home prices out of control, broken healthcare system, disproportionate welfare systems, and an aging population that consumes far more resources than they generate.

The answers to these problems are not as simple as waiving one’s hand, but removing or disincentiving greed would go a long way to reducing most of it.

Almost every problem we race is due to greed that values money and power over people.