[djplong]

It is SO much easier to say people don't want to work anymore. The truth is far different.

1) Unemployment is down below pre-pandemic levels. People DO want to work.

2) You failed math if you think that unemployment benefits are more than the paycheck you got to earn them. Remember? You DID have to work to qualify.

3) Research shows that it's not an unwillingness to work. It's being fed up with being paid poverty wages and having companies cry poverty while reporting record profits.

The perfect case is my older daughter. Stuck in a job she loved with management she hated at very low wages. She found a new job that paid TWICE as much, not perfect but still doing what she's good at, with a career path to higher management and senior management who actually listen to the people they hire.

Her old boss is complaining people don't want to work.

No, sir, they do not want to work FOR YOU.

The younger generation has an increasing number of members who are seeing the man behind the curtain. They have friends in foreign countries thanks to the internet and see how employees are treated there and are deciding they have had ENOUGH.