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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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.
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