Debunking “No One Wants To Work Anymore” | Robert Reich
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- What corporate America says: “No one wants to work anymore.”
The truth: No one wants to be exploited anymore.
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No one wants to work 3 jobs to get where their grandpa did with one job.
Agreed and it shouldn't have to be like that, but companies have broken there social contract.
Ha. Not even. 3 jobs wont get you a house, car, health benefits, retirement benefits and the ability to afford children. Our grandparents had it insurmountably easier. Its crazy. End capitalism. End the nightmare
@@Phoenixguy357 100% agreed. I can't afford to work a second job if you don't count mowing the neighboring gentlemen's club as parttime income. I need all the OT I can get and there are weeks when it's still not enough. Prices go up; Corporate profits go up; we take in in the backside and yet, 'we' keep electing these corporate hacks.
@@Gmcmil720science Broke it; rewrote it so they get all the good stuff; used the wages and benefits they should have given their workers to buy off Washington and every chance and level. Yeah, there's been a lot of stolen elections in America if you ask me. Stolen with our collective consent.
@@historyre-visited4597 thats the thing. We're not electing anything. "Lobbyist" which is the american word for bribing - decide who is elected, who stays in office, which laws get passed and enforced and how our country operates. We live in a Plutocracy. Not a democracy. We need a revolution. Im not exagerating one bit. And im not crazy.
Low wages, high cost of living. Working 40+ hours a week and still can't afford bare necessities? It's ridiculous.
Boot straps!
Trueeee
I hate coworkers
@@basedsoothsayer Do you know that the phrase 'pick oneself by their own bootstraps' back in the day, was a term to portray something that was impossible to do? I mean, have you literally ever seen anyone pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?!
Im not sure why capitalists use this phrase to mean 'try harder', when it actually refers to attempting (and failing every time) because of attempting the impossible.
@@nevadataylor yes it was sarcasm
Everyone wants to work. But not for slave labor wages.
Which is the real reason conservatives oppose welfare, because poor people won't work for slave wages if they have government benefits.
Slaves didn't get any pay.
@@brianmelendy1194 fallacy of relative privation.
@@brianmelendy1194 they got what we pay for today - roof and food
@@brianmelendy1194just by looking at your comment history I can tell you are a boomer who only worked one job back in the day. And that's all it took. Go take your meds old man
I'm a retail worker here in the UK. I have heard the "No one wants to work" anymore arguments, and they're kind of half right! People are fed up with being exploited, being paid a shitty wage, crappy work conditions, no sick pay, and if they do happen to phone in sick, it results in a written warning! I have seen new staff threatened by managers over work performance on a daily basis! Workers are treated like shit! This is not the way to inspire people to work hard and aspire to bigger things! The company I once worked for gave staff a pay rise of £0.54p in eight years, whilst they raked in millions! The CEO of the company had an average take-home of seven million pounds a year! I could barely afford to put petrol in my car, working my ass off and that Dude sat behind a desk, creaming off the top! Plus, having to work holidays such as Easter Monday and Tuesday, Boxing day and May-day! Boxing day, especially since the run up to Christmas, people spend like crazy and stores decide to open the day after Christmas day and people barely get any time with their families! It's pure greed, and yet, there's little or no reward for anyone who isn't higher up in the corporate hierarchy! If my own experience is one example, the millions of people who work in these jobs have many more examples that are worse! So, yeah, there's a reason why people don't want to work anymore and if employers want staff to work in their establishments, pay them better and offer them better benefits and conditions and not treat them like a conveyer belt of expendable meat! I've often told younger staff that once upon a time, these jobs were once jobs for life. Not anymore. Companies don't give a flying fuck about you, all they see is the bottom line and that sweet, sweet bonus they get for towing the line! It has to stop, enough is enough!!
the media isnt' controlled by the poor that's fer sure
That made me cry.
@scifirealism5943 I worked with a guy who's only 23, and he was off sick with Chickenpox for two weeks! They phoned him on week one and told him when he was due back in, which was later that same week! He was informed by his doctor to NOT to return to work so soon! He was off for two weeks and was given a written warning within a few days of coming back!! Its absolutely fucking ridiculous as to how staff are treated!! Its utter bullshit! People are knocking their bollocks in at a job that they hate, yet have to put food on the table! I know a woman who has worked every Saturday and Sunday for the last five years and hasn't had any family time with her husband and kids! She asked for a change of hours, and she was flat out denied! The company in question has a high turnover of staff! This is because it's poorly run, and they treat staff like shit! People say "Fuck this!" And go! However, management can't figure out why so many staff leave within weeks!! Thanks for your comment!❤️❤️❤️ I saw there were two replies here, but yours was the only one visible! I'm guessing the other wasn't very nice!! And always remember, working in retail is a lot like trying to fuck a Hedgehog!....... its one Prick against hundreds!!😮😮😮😮😬😬😬😬😬
Sadly, I don't believe it will ever stop...
Beautifully stated, so spot on!
I don’t see America as a wealthy nation. I see America as an impoverished nation with a small elite group of billionaires in control of everything.
You see it as it is, then.
The Republicans HAVE Become the ENEMY of America & ANYTHING of DECENCY to MOVE Our Nation Forward! They have NOT ONE POLICY that ACTUALLY HELPS IMPROVE the LIVES of Average Americans in ANY WAY whatsoever..NONE, ZERO! All they have is FEAR CRUELTY HATE & BIGOTRY! RID your LIves of ALL Republicans.... they are NOTZ Wannabees.... Anti-Women, Banning Books, Anti-Birth Control, Anti-Trans & Anti-Science, Anti-Climate Change, and lots of GAY HATE etc
MeriKKKa is the SCHITHOLE COUNTRY you've heard sooo much about, with SPECIAL THANKS to republicans for the EXTRA SCHITHOLINESS ! MeriKKKa where we ALLOW 60,000+ Americans to DIE Every Year for LACK of healthcare and Medications they CANT Afford and No one cares..... ...MeriKKKa where we have over 40+MILLION with NO HEALTHCARE at all and No One cares.......... MeriKKKa where we have MILLIONS of HOMELESS Nationwide and No One cares... MeriKKKa, where ALL Repubs and the Corporate Dems ( NOT Progressives ) passed an $800+BILLION One YR Military Budget... yet we Average citizens getting Begged calls from VET GRPS ask for DONATIONS to HELP with VET CARE??? ...........WTF is ALL that Gdammed MOney going??? NO ONE Ever asks....Riiiight MSM???!!!!! .....and Again to Top it off , No Money for Child Day Care for working Mothers, No Dental, Eyecare, or Hearing aids for Seniors..... Merikkkka IS the Certified SCHITHOLE .. .with thanks also, to about 40% of Our Nation of Garbage People, Uninformed Morons , Racist, haters, Bigots....who constantly Vote against their own interests.... so glad I dont have kids and more years behind than ahead
It's a wealthy nation where a minority hold the majority of the wealth. Unions need to return, wages need to rise, the wealthy need to be taxed, and the nation's wealth would not be so extremely concentrated. The economy would be healthier overall, and there would be more competition, with new businesses starting up more often.
The nation is very wealthy. It has a vast amount of resources that are squandered causing extreme inequality.
You've obviously never left the country or know any immigrants
When I hear "no one wants to work anymore" I actually hear "no one wants to accept my shitty pay and horrible benefits package"
More nonexistent benefits.
There's a "pharmacist shortage" at Walgreens, CVS, etc. There's no shortage of pharmacists, there's a shortage of suckers willing to work in intentionally understaffed pharmacies for decreasing pay while these companies post record profits.
What benefits package?? 😂😂😂😂😂
What I hear is lazy people with no real skills want $30 an hour for breathing.
Don't forget that many (say) will pay well but you need very special skills that hardly anyone in the planet have, and they will sometimes require years of proven experience... good luck with getting all of that.
For a year and a half I worked 12 hour rotating shifts in a candle factory. No student loan debt, no car payments (apart from insurance), no credit cards, not married, no kids, and no expensive vices (gambling, drugs, smoking, lottery addiction, etc.). Even with all this I was still barely gaining any ground, somehow.
Wake up at 4am, get to the work floor at 6am, get home at 6:30pm, pop melatonin at 7pm, go to sleep at 8pm, rinse and repeat. Did mandatory OT as required, often with last minute notice. Lived like that for a year and a half up until the sudden mass layoff. No severance... just a free candle and a thank you. 👍😵💫
Combine with my shitty 3 year experience with retail before that in a different company, is it any real wonder I'm apprehensive about rejoining the workforce right now? "No one wants to work anymore" indeed... anyone who believes that are either disconnected with reality, are blinded by dollar bills, or both.
But you got a free candle? I don't see your problem here !!! (Yes, I am joking. It sounds like quite pathetic treatment.)
I too, once upon a time, thought that 12-hour rotating shifts would be baller. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that companies that do that have a remarkable sense of entitlement to your labor for far lower a cost than its worth. I quit on them. The job agency that had found me the job wasn't happy, and tried to guilt-trip me. I played it cold.
I found out that place got shut down a few months later. Felt like karma. You want me to work 12 hours? I need longer breaks and more of them, and most of them paid breaks. And it wouldn't kill ya to treat your workers better on-the-job either.
That's not living, that's surviving. And I totally understand why folk are fed up with hard work and long hours just to survive. We're a rich country. People willing to work hard should be capable of more than mere survival.
Our economy grows at little more than two percent our debt under Biden at seven our prosperity is an illusion backed up soley by debt we are not a rich nation vote out handout Democrats before it's to late
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people,
particularly the younger generation, use a range of unconventional methods of earning a living these days. I worked in the retail for over 10 years, so l'm quite happy that this is taking place. For too long, retail bullied me and a lot of my employees/colleagues saying things like "if you don't like it,go; another like you is waiting to get into your position " since the COVID, I found a job that helps me grow, pays me more and Values Me, Social media cleared the way for a rapidly expanding market, and it taught us a lot. 2020 was my turning point, and investment helped alot!
You're very right, There's almost nothing interesting or motivating about 9-5 anymore.
The majority of this new generation loves working remotely and prefers to be their own boss!
yh. The 2020 pandemic gave everyone a big rethink! I tried a lot of things; I realised I shouldn't just let my savings sit around in the bank, tried side hustles. It paid off! Right now I’ve got less work time, time for my family and stick making the 6 figures
Having to spend time with Family, that's the real MVP! 🏆 Time is your major asset as a human but these corporation try to steal it sadly.
@Mandison There's various profitable ways to invest. Starting out you need to work with experienced hands to walk you through. As a rookie I dabbled in and made mistakes till I got a mentor to put me on the right track. You can search one too, read books and do your own research
Myth: "No one wants to work anymore"
Reality: "No one wants to pay for labor anymore"
Reality: People think they are worth a lot more than they actually are.
Bitchspot Blog@........Most people I know would be happy to go to university or a trade school.......if they could afford it without taking on thousands in debt.
Most companies are not incentivized to provide specialization training or further education because they keep more money by not having to pay middle-income salaries.
Most employees would take the opportunity to specialize to further their value to a company if they could.
@@BitchspotBlog True! They are called capitalists
Those that are paying for labor don't want to be charged 10X what the labor is worth! I employ home health care aides, I can't afford to pay their companies $50/hr so that they can make $25!
@@repelsteeltje90 Which is a good thing. There seems to be a definite divide between what people think they're worth and what potential employers think they're worth. The employers always win that fight.
I am a senior citizen who applied ALL OVER at places with those "now hiring" signs. What a bitter joke. After 70, I am now unemployable anywhere. After my rent went up by $200, I just had to get used to losing everything.
None of those businesses with the fake hiring signs were seriously looking for help. And their whining is sickening. Let them fall.
Yes, they all are lying so they can take advantage of Covid benefits for businesses.
They do not want more workers.
100% agree
@@nathano148 I agree and thinking similarly. If he's physically fit, he can do delivery and they'll appreciate him. Customers want good service and timely orders. Older people are more reliable and know what customer service means.
Find a lawyer, get friendly, and start suing those places for age discrimination. Split the profits with that lawyer. Could be a great income revenue stream for both of you.
What’s sickening is the individual that’s not prepared for their older life complaining about something that shouldn’t even concern them.
It's not that people don't want to work, it's that people are tired of being taken advantage of.
What employers don’t understand is you want people to do the job of three people and pay them the bare minimum. When I worked at Target and Walgreens they each wanted their employees to work the job of three people and pay them minimum wage. I brought that up and said “If you want me to do the job of three people, you’d have to pay me money re than $17.75 an hour. I would need $35 an hour.” You want me to do the job of three people, pay me what I’m worth.
Exactly.
Exactly: No one wants to be exploited any more.
@@Zach-ju5vicry some more MAGA tears.
Nobody ever wanted to be exploited.
@@Zach-ju5vi blahhhh
@@Zach-ju5vi "Everything I don't like is socialism." - Trump voters
Yes
Employer: I want someone with a masters degree and 10 years of experience.
Worker: OK - I have those qualifications.
Employer: Great. How does $40,000 a year sound?
Worker: I'm going to have to pass on that offer. Kids in high school make more than that working part time at McDonald's.
Employer: No one wants to work anymore!
Seriously? Kids working in fast food are making $40K in your area? Out here the average wage of a fast food worker is $13-$14/hr and the so-called “professional” positions aren’t doing much better - for example, paralegals with 3-5 years of experience are averaging between $36-$38K!
Something has gone horribly awry!
Hahahahaha, pretty close
Better yet, they want a Masters and ten years of experience AND they want you to be 24.
Employer: "We're looking for a hard working person to learn the job and work their way up the ladder the old fashioned way."
College graduate: "I don't want to pay my dues - I deserve a managerial position because I was born in America."
As a small employer this is closer to my actual experience.
Look at workforce participation. Teens, especially, just don't work anymore. Lots of loser boys staying home... Failure to launch.
@@aptpupil Bullshit - most young people just want wages they can live on and most employers just don’t want to pay anything.
Always remember one thing about corrupt politicians and corporations .... they need us we don't need them
I've also noticed at my last 3 jobs (all since COVID began) that every job I started, conditions and pay were great, but both deteriorated the longer you worked there. Shifts would get canceled, promised pay raises and bonuses evaporated, you became de-facto on call, etc. It was like they always wanted fresh blood and once you settled in you were encouraged to job hop.
Your just a bludger
They're just trying to falsify unemployment data is all. Why there is unemployment and welfare boxes on the apps, first priority hire
That's why you have to job hop, dont stagnate at one job for 3 yeara typically I switch to a new job every year or couple of months to give myself a new raise
@@Name.......... careful doing that in a declining job market!
Last week I was riding the country bus and the driver was complaining about the national bus driver shortage. He kept complaining that _"People don't want to work! They get money not to so we need to stop that!"_ I asked him how the pay was and he said it was okay but the health insurance was so horrible that he wouldn't even work there if he wasn't on his wife's insurance. I ask why new drivers would want the job with such bad benefits and his brain stuttered to a halt.
good thing he isnt payed to think
@@aceous99LOL.
Exactly.
@@aceous99 I'm sure you're PAID much more with that big brain of yours....
His brain screeched to a halt!!
The fact they can go on TV and say unemployment pays more than the work available yet not see how dystopian that is is the height of corporate hubris.
Exactly. I've heard my bosses say over the years, "You see us more than your own family." but it finally hit me how dystopian that statement always has been.
Or seeing people actually rebel against the idea of fathers getting leave when their child is born. Or the idea, "If you can go three weeks+ without being at work THEN THEY DON'T NEED YOU!" Which is really stupid because at my job, being gone for so long just means a detail opens up and someone else can get experience at that job to see if they want to do it or get a temporary wage increase or something to put on their resume. It's gaslighting and fear-mongering fathers into being absentee fathers.
Demolition Man.
Welcome to the country of San Angeles
@@chrismadison305 Are you?
@@chrismadison305 their not risking money stop watching Fox news
And stop simping for billion airs it's pathetic
many times, unemployment dose pay more than minimum wage.
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore"
Many people, especially the younger generation, are engaging in a variety of unorthodox activities to make a living.
Side hustles and hobbies, Content-creating online. Social media is a fast growing market rn I applaud them.
2020 was my turning point and investing put me on track.
You're very right.
There's almost nothing interesting or motivating about 9-5
I also think the problem is employers wanting
an education way beyond the skills that is
necessary to do the job.
I really applaud anyone beating the system to make a living. I'm currently working 2 jobs and still living on each paycheck with no freedom.
@@theresamish1746 the 2020 pandemic gave me a mental and life reset. I tried out a lot of stuff, side hustle and investing. I realised having savings just sitting in the bank is useless. I take lesser work hours now, do my side hustle grow passive income from my investments and have time for my family.
@@danielwill2912 having freedom to spend time with your family is what I consider a huge win 💖💐
Your right brother, people want to earn a living not being enslaved.
Inflation has been on the rise but no increase but just pay cuts flying around
Totally agree. This man hit it right on the head.
Doing a job that doesn't get you out of poverty yet makes fortunes for higher up's, that depend on you, is an insult. Exploitation at its finest.
It used to be called "slavery"!
@mrconfusion87 Same thing.. only now the government found a way to collect taxes. ✌🤣
All of the unemployed people I know are submitting between 20-90 applications a month and either not hearing back at all, receiving "thanks but no thanks" emails, or getting interviews that lead to no offers. It seems that most employers are looking for the same 3 people in their area, and the rest of the available workers are S.O.L. We *want* and *need* to work. To pay bills, to feel like we're contributing to something bigger than ourselves, to remain engaged meaningfully in broader society, and to maintain dignity and self-reliance. But the messaging is that we're lazy and entitled. I work extremely hard, every day, and to tell me I'm lazy and entitled because I'm unemployed right now is so utterly disheartening and insulting. And WRONG. Thank you Robert and team for producing this - it's what we're feeling and experiencing, but we're being used as a political pawn for the GOP.
Well said 👏 I really hope things change for you, namaste.
That has been my experience also.
Employers want the best person for the job but at wages lower than what is realistic.
Two of my previous employers approached me late last year to take up the post I had with them before...... at a lower salary than I had when I left them.
I knew that was coming though, I turned them down without negotiating. I am lucky that I can do that.
A lot of folk can't. However, that leads to the next issue - employee turnover in skilled jobs.
This week, at my Monday pub -quiz group, two of the team handed in their notice at work. Lass said that she would be on 17 percent more than the firm she is leaving.
If that is the case then it is likely that they are looking for someone who can do two different jobs that they used to have two different people doing. The applicant may have all the necessary skills and experience for the one job but not for the other so the employer is satisfied to wait until the one guy comes along who can do both the jobs.
Yeah nobody wants to waste time on being jerked around. I tried that from 2008-10 and I kept fishing and got fed up, I went to junior college so at the very least I was not wasting more time and make the best of it but to this day I don't believe in the whole "now hiring" sign. It's just a facade.
Thats exactly how I feel. I want to work but have a light duty restriction. Employers don't wanna hire me.
I've been hearing no one wants to work anymore for 63 years. In that time I've worked for screaming jerks and people that treated their workers like family. What I've always dreaded is a insecure middle manager on a power trip. Someone given a dollar an hour raise and double the responsibility. I think having that pressure just isn't worth it.
I still work for a jerk, but I am enjoying being self-employed.
😅🤣
Exactly! That's one of the many reasons I left corporate America. You can't place a price tag on peace and freedom, no money in the world is worth it!
@@mjohnson1741 And, you only live once😔…………
Lol. Self-deprecation is priceless.
Just remember you work to support yourself and your family, not out of company loyalty. If you get a better opportunity, take it. Just keep in mind it's what you keep, not what you earn that matters and do your best to pay off any debts and reduce expenses.
I’m 56 and worked since I was 14. My last few jobs had so much overtime and working weekends. I feel like I wasted so much of my life making big companies rich. I applaud the younger generation for standing up and not giving in to long hours and low wages. You’re missing so much life chasing a dollar.
China our biggest competitor and threat now has the worlds largest economy we must produce more or china will overtake us democrat policy wants less work meaning less production for more pay meaning higher consumption we cannot our compete our biggest threat which is china with Democrat policies Democrats party of handouts vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it
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You are correct however if your salary doesn't cover basic needs plus something extra one is unable to put anything away as savings. I am a teacher and am just barely able to put away approximately 2% of my pay. At this rate I will literally have to work beyond my life expectancy to afford to retire.
And training/educating yourself for the next pay level.
I've worked hard enough for people that love to say I'm replaceable but when I leave all I hear is how everything turned into a shit show and their wanted list has my position open for damn near a year. The disrespect, the tone deaf requests, the ignored suggestions on improvements that get used months later with credit stolen... it's not really a surprise we all collectively snapped.
@Xujen Voxith Freaking love your comment! So true.
No ONe wAnTs tO wOrK.
As a senior, I applied all over, to fill those empty positions. Never got an interview, just age discrimination, and their idiotic window signs and ads never even came down. May they FAIL.
Well said Xujen.Well said...
Xujen Voxith Capitalism though they
could break our Spirits and Submit to their Narcissistic Greedy Selfish
Abusive Wills over our Lives. We do
not break under their Pressures and Abuses. We are able to Survive and
Thrive without them we discover.
Freedom to be more loving , compassionate , and empathic.
Freedom to Reap the rewards of our
Own Choices of how to Live in
Peace and Happiness. We don't
Need Abusive Employers , or Abusiveness toward us as Consumers of their products.
We need more snappers
If there's such a labor shortage why are tech jobs requiring seven interviews over a 4-month period? Why does the application to work at Target or Walmart involve 3 hours of cheesy multiple choice questions about stealing things from the workplace? Why can't I apply at home Depot without uploading a resume, typing out my resume, and then uploading a 2-minute video explaining my resume?
Omgggggggh. Yeeeeeeessssss. Maddening.
Yes, it's almost as if they're testing your tenacity or hoping to stymie the process deliberately.
Funny, I've been asking myself the same thing!
Yes! I have to submit a resume, cover letter, references, answer a lengthy questionnaire, enter the same info that is on my resume, do a preliminary phone interview, and then at the Zoom or in-person interview, I find out that the interviewer has not read a damn thing that I was required to submit. WTF?!
@@PatriciaKanavy the glory of just feeding all that stuff into some algorithm that spits out a yes or no for an interview... and in quite a few cases those algorithms have some nasty biases
Shareholders do not want to work. They want to be paid handsome dividends for doing no work, exploiting those who actually do the work. That aggression must not be allowed to stand, man.
No one wants to be treated like shit by employers anymore
I keep hearing, “we don’t want to pay your bills,” when the only thing I’m working for is to pay my bills.
The greed of corporations, landlords, and employers is the real problem. But heaven forbid the establishment media frames it like that. Thank you for spelling it out so clearly.
It's greed. It's also the system.
@@ningzhang3282 So it becomes a Greedy system then
Exhibit A of the deliberate income gap:
44 Million in the US who don't get paid enough to feed their families who are on Food Stamps.
22 Million Millionaires in the US who got there on the backs of Group A.
Literally 1 millionaire for ever 2 hungry families working to keep them rolling in their Millions.
Greed is what capitalism is based on, this is the logical result. 3rd world wages in a first world economy.
@@gerardflynn7382 Yeah. It's become a system that allows greed to grow to an uncontrollable extent. It's a system that lets the greed of the few exploit the mass.
The reason is, company's are mostly hiring part time help. Companys don't want to pay benefits, or a reasonable wages.
Years ago, when there were more unions many people had a better standard of living!
That's a fact
And you see where that has led us.
Making the poor suffer for being poor is the Victorian Workhouse model. Minimum wage has morphed into the least amount of money I can legally get away with paying instead of being the minimum wage necessary to support a family.
I recently saw a meme that asked, "If fast-food wages are because its a job for kids, why are they open during school hours?".
I'm in favor of having a lower minimum wage for dependent minors, but yes, the same minimum wage should not be applied to adults living on their own.
It’s also for seniors who can’t live on their Social Security /sarc
@@phillipsusi1791 If that was the case, then companies would only hire minors, thus incentivizing child labour
@@suryanarayan2032 Seriously, wish more people realized that.
More than the rich elite, it is the average worker who doesn't want minimum wage to increase. Because imagine you earned 16 dollars. The minimum wage earner makes only 7.50 dollars. That means you make more than twice minimum wage and you feel good about yourself. But when the minimum wage were to increase to 15 dollars, you suddenly just make 1 dollar above minimum wage, so you feel like a minimum wage worker now, even though nothing changed for you. Then there is the scaremongering that a burger will become more expensive for you when the burger flipper suddenly gots payed as good as you.
People are indeed that selfish and feel better about themselves knowing that others have it worse.
In reality the minimum wage doesn't affect prices as much as the selfish bastards want to convince each other. What affects prices the most is the wealth gap. The fact that there are people who earn significantly more and have more wealth is the reason why things like housing is getting more and more unaffordable. The minimum wage workers income got no influence on that. The greedy landlords adjust prices according to high earners as if everybody was a DHINK (double high income no kids).
Some people then say that when minimum wage workers increase wages than middle income and high income people should get an equal increase in wages. However, it's exactly that which shouldn't happen. What we need is that the wage gap gets closed and not kept or further increased. If everybody increased wages at a similar rate, then there wouldn't be any point in increasing wages. Prices would just increase so that no difference would be seen.
What we need is indeed an increase of the minimum wage. Not more money for those who already get enough.
I want to work, but I don't want to be taken advantage of. I don't want to be rich, I just want to pay my bills conservatively, improve my community, take an annual vacation, maybe 3 annual weekend getaways, have good health, healthcare, and be able to help my family in times of need.
You're right, we don't want to be exploited.
It's too bad corporations do NOT want to do this.
Not for unskilled workers why should they
You want decent wages vacation three weekend get aways and good healthcare from a low skilled job is that what your saying
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Low skill jobs are often made up for in higher quantity of tasks. Try doing something easy for hours with limited breaks and/or exhausting work environments, and suddenly it’s not so easy.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031low wage jobs are where most of the labour shortages are. 35% of Americans work full time at jobs that make less than $15 and hour. The wages of manufacturing and construction jobs are nearly the same that they were in 1980, now with less or no benefits and 3,000% inflation on the dollar.
How can all these people get better jobs than what they have? It’s statistically impossible.
Why should the average citizen not expect the things that were promised to previous generations? Especially when the richest companies and people are making more money than they ever have since and the income gap widens.
Not only low wages but frequently high requirements. They won't take "anybody". Plus many companies keep job openings for positions they don't intend to fill so they look like they're doing well and expanding.
It's not that people don't want to work. They just don't want to work for very low paying salaries. Especially in fields they already have experiences in.
Exactly
My husband had this happen to him last year after his department was laid off. He has 15 years experience in a very specialized field and applied at 80 places at least. He only got a handful of interviews, and other places brushed him off saying he doesn't have the skill YET these companies are tiny, and work for larger companies he has direct experience working with!! One place interviewed him FIVE times just to tell him he didn't have the 'skill' even though he has done exactly the type of project they are doing!! He has been turned down on interviews by people with LESS experience and much worse final products than him. These places want someone with all the skill, but all the desperation too. Some were looking for someone to do 2-3 jobs at a time for less pay than he was getting before! They would advertise a senior role and were looking for a lead (without the title). He finally landed something good, but it was through a contact. I feel terrible for everyone looking for work right now.
Younger less qualified bosses were afraid your husband would go after their job.
@@carlbowles1808wow.
@@carlbowles1808I didn't think about it like that.
Same thing happened to my wife. Luckily I went in there & explained to these said bosses that my wife is very skilled & has 10 years experience. She's very happy now managing a high pay corporate fiance job.
They want a clueless, gullible, desperate, 20 something year old with 10+ years experience LOL
"No one wants to be exploited anymore. " Couldn't have closed with a better line. Man is a genius!
Agree 100%. Stop making people an economic slave and give them respect. Give the worker a living wage.
“No one wants to work for me”
“Are you going to raise wages?”
“WHAT?”
I was making more money straight out of highschool FIFTY YEARS AGO than the minimum wage is today. How could anyone possibly live on $14.50 an hour! This is madness.
Here in the great state of TX, the legal minimum wage is $7.25 - the same as the federal.
correct - that’s impossible- my Social Security is a good deal more than that.
Indiana's minimum wage is $7.25. Absolute poverty wages.
@@ningzhang3282 Idaho too. Right to work state.
All you people from red states, need to vote out the politicians that keep minimum wage, so drastically low. And, this includes you ass kissing RepubliCON supporters, who side with them even though you're getting screwed over, by them too!!!! Time to WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!
A great thing about the pandemic is that a lot of people broke free of constant exploitation for a while and changed their way of thinking!
Bust your butt at work, and get rewarded with a layoff. Regular workers have long memories too.
I know of several families that tightened their belts and went single income, and haven’t gone back. Generally one person left a low income service job.
Upper management does not want to raise wages because they want to keep that $ for themselves. Buy another house,more horses,more toys.
I was making $11 an hour 6 years ago. I was stuck at $11 with no chance of ever getting a raise, not even 1 penny. Those same companies are still offering $11 an hour 6 years later. But the cost of everything else constantly goes up. I just went to pay my internet bill & they jacked it up $5 higher. This is *SICK, CRUEL & PURE EVIL!*
Republican: Let the market decide!
Workers: Okay, we quit!
Republicans: NO...not like that!
Technically that was never the free market because unemployment benefits is an outside factor
@@Sharpshooter649 Unemployment benefits actually make it a free market. A characteristic of a free market is freedom of choice, which you can’t have if workers are forced into taking a job due to a lack of a safety net.
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Democrats don't oppose Republicans. They just pretend to, to divide and conquer the public.
@@Klako-ls6yt unemployment benefits is a joke, at least in virginia. cannot even 25% support youself with it.
I have 5 years of specialized IT experience , a killer resume, a degree, I am gainfully employed, have modern certificates, and have applied to over 200 jobs. I know that the issue is not with me. The politicians/stat agencies and industry leaders are lying.
Apply to Tesla Motors
You don't say I never heard of a politician lying to to the public
I'm in the same boat . You're not alone and it's not your fault. This is something much larger than personal choices that can't be chalked up to bad decisions in life. It's happening to millions of ppl.
How do you know it isn't you? I ask because the IT industry is one I worked in for many years. Lots of subtle reasons why the path upwards doesn't continue at the pace some want. It is an industry full of egos without the skills to back them up. But the lying issue is likely true as well given the players mentioned.
@@geekfreak618 You make good points. I know it's not me because I've applied to downgrades and positions outside my domain as well.
People want to work - but are tired of being underpaid with lousy or no benefits while those clowns in D.C. are getting paid hundreds of thousand of dollars, a complete pension pick-up, zero deductibles on healthcare, both cost-of-living raises and regular yearly raises, expense accounts to pay their daily expenses while the rest of us workers pay our expenses out of our salaries ... and can't even elect a Speaker for the House of Representatives.
When rents are $750-$1200 and jobs pay $11-$13 an hour it just does not work. I have been an employee and employer and do understand both sides of the coin. I am now a sole proprietor with no workers. Age and salary discrimination is undoubtedly real. People in some industries, especially food, and hospitality have just said forget it, I'll stay home and figure out other employment means.
Some woman I used to work with always complained that no one wanted to work anymore then in the same sentence would say all the illegals are taking jobs. What jobs, the jobs you didn’t want? A lot of people don’t want to work anymore because they’re fed up with low pay, almost no hours, no benefits unless you’re full time, poor management and verbal abuse from customers. Who would want to put up with it? I quit working in retail almost a year ago because I was fed up with feeling like I was going nowhere with my life. I work at a high school now as a custodian. I work 40 hours a week, sometimes have overtime, I have benefits, a 401k. This job got me out of my parents house and into my own place. The best part is I don’t have to deal with customer abuse at all. Usually after school dismisses there’s hardly anyone still in the building.
I love your story of being a custodian, if it makes you happy and works for you that's all that matters!
Don't get married and don't have kids.
I worked at Macy's for three years and the customer abuse is very real. That's why I can't stand that "customer is always right". Management was beyond awful also. I ended up quitting on the spot one day because I got so fed up with it all. Best decision I ever made.
mad respect. I do blue collar work too. its so underrated!
@Dave Bach if you have seen the dating market, if you're not making$200k or more 6ft tall with washboard abs you're not getting it. And if the proposed law in Scotland takes effect everywhere else in the world which appears to be happening. The fact that you just mentioned this in a public forum means you're looking at a 7 year prison sentence. Time to bail out of society if your a man
I work in an IT department that is horribly understaffed. Every team has multiple jobs posted, and we are getting plenty of qualified applicants. Of course, some of them aren't willing to work for the crappy wages offered, but even when they are, the HR department takes literal months to reply to applicants, and then more months after the initial interview. Leadership keeps talking about everything they're doing to hire people, but it sure seems from my perspective that they are intentionally keeping us short-staffed.
Of course they are spouting bull. The corporate model is to cut and cut until they find the lowest point before revolt and violence. We’re there.
That's how I feel about my job too
It's also a way to get the foriegn workers in on visa's and then pay them about 1/3 of what they would pay the American workers. I had a relative that worked in the hiring departments of one of the major US computer companies. They would claim they couldn't get American workers and then would bring in the foriegn workers.
@Church of POS that's messed up.
Of course.
If you can get the job done now, in their mind why should they hire anyone else?
Eric, you heard him. No one wants to be exploited anymore!!!
Capt Picard said it best. "The most important thing in a man's life is to feel useful." A man will always want to work. Always. We literally suffer mentally and physically when we don't. Oligarchs have figured this out and use it against us. And what's more, ANY job that a person goes around telling people they enjoy and makes them feel fulfilled in life, the first thing that happens is his pay is cut + made to work longer hours until the man suffers for no other reason than "Why am I paying you to enjoy yourself. Because I'm wealthy, only I get to do that."
The wisdom of Star Trek. Please.
Thank you for correcting those idiotic corporate media! No one wants to work for a job that isn't enough to cover your rent and cost of living. There is no labor shortage. There is however a housing shortage.
You are a hero!
There's just a shortage of affordable housing
there is no housung shortage, there's an availability shortage. small number of people bought all of them. there are double the house per person in america. on earth, it 6 to 1. 6 houses per person. HOUSES.
Go work and prove yourself
@@PC-tc5je WTF is that even supposed to mean? The guy made a comment about the availability of affordable housing.
@Tom C. You sound like a Biden supporter
Thanks for setting the record straight, Robert. I remember when I first began hearing "No one wants to work anymore". I saw an executive from a medium-sized company on TV make that exact statement. I wanted to shout back at my TV screen, "Maybe no one wants to work _for you!"_
Exactly! 👍
LOL Yes majority of people like to be productive, but they also need to afford food and shelter. Being trapped working for nothing takes time away from trying to take care of a family.
Yeah I'm tired of hearing it too. I want to work, but I want to be paid a decent wage for the work I am doing. I'm tired of working so many hours and then having almost nothing to show for it.
Translation: "No One want's to work for nothing with no future to make me rich Anymore"...
I'm so glad this man is on the planet - he makes more sense to me than anyone else. Last Christmas myself and my wife went with another couple to buy Christmas trees. The husband of his other couple started talking with the man at the farm who was having trouble getting people to work for him on his farm - where he was paying people a princely ten-dollars an hour. Our friend was sympathetic and immediately pronounced, "Yeah, people just don't wanna work anymore!". I wanted to barf - what in the hell is ten bucks an hour in 2022, or, 2023? And, even weirder is this guy retired from a good job on the railroad where he made great money, had great benefits, now gets a great retirement package and where he was a union rep!!! Now he watches FoxNews all day, is suddenly anti-union, and seems completely oblivious to the real situation on the ground for American workers. He's got his, and, now people are suddenly just lazy. This shit sends me to the moon.
"He's got his, and, now people are suddenly just lazy. "
So he's become a typical Republican?
I encounter boomers like this all day long. Basically, utterly clueless as to what is really going on.
Seriously, duh! People tying Christmas trees to the top of your car deserve $30 an hour - at least!
@@mrderp1292 How far did you do to school? Two blocks? The guy was talking about people working on his farm, not kids tying trees to cars. Your reading comprehension stinks, man.
@@guymerritt4860 I was in a family partnership that owned a Christmas Tree farm in Highlands, North Carolina for over 25 years and grew Frasier Firs. It was basically a "side hustle" that paid the annual taxes for the other operations in the family LLC which included cattle and 8 double decker egg layer houses. The tree farm required almost zero work all year - the trees just sit there and grow. You spend 2 whole days out of the year trimming with a razor sharp machete and another two days spraying pesticides and fungicides. The majority of the work takes place in about a 30 day stretch starting in mid-November and ending around mid-December and includes cutting, baling, and transporting the trees to the points of sale. We ran a crew of 4 people - two who rode in the baling truck and two that rode in the semi. If you think people deserve a year-long "living wage" to do what basically amounts to a month and four days worth of seasonal work per year I don't know what to tell you. I do appreciate your input on the intricacies of operating a Christmas tree farm though I file that away in my DGAF drawer with the rest of the information this literal gremlin in the video spouts off about.
The owner class lies to the worker class, tale as old as time. They convince everyone that their neighbor is the problem instead of runaway corporate profits and greed. These rich people wouldn't understand "work" as the working class knows it. They have never worked 10 hours to come home and fix dinner for the kids before helping them with their homework. They can work their own jobs if they are so desirable, at the pay they offer others.
You got all that right.
The "neighbor" is always some minority group and it circles back, right now it immigrants and muslims etc...
I agree let them work like we do and see how they like it. I bet some things would change.
they have not just not worked 10 hours a day... i doubt many of them have worked at all
I LIVE THAT LIFE!!!! After my husband got locked up over 3 years ago (don’t ask, it’s none of your business), I had to go back to work after years of being a stay-at-home mom (the after-school and daycare in our town is either prohibitively expensive, run by conservative Christian churches-a HUGE no for us non-Christians, or both), and even with a college degree the BEST I can get is minimum wage work. Because one kid is still at home (the other is in college) and I also have aging parents to help provide care for, and all the housework and yard work is on me, I had to stick with part-time work. Worse, I’m dealing with all of this ALONE because there’s no support group for families of incarcerated people in our county! My dad helps me out financially, and between that and my paycheck the bills get paid, but there’s no money for extras like social activities for me (I’m a Democrat and a non-Christian in a small “red” town-where would I go anyway?). After three years of being a prison wife on top of the pandemic isolation, I’m used to it by now, and until my husband gets home and goes back to work, my life is on hold. But it’s hard-I’m getting a bad back from all the physical work I’m doing (standing on your feet at work in a retail job all day does horrible things to your lumbar spine), and having to keep people at arm’s length due to fear of being shunned due to my prison-wife status makes me an anonymous drone. The only other options where I live are warehouse work (*cough*AMAZON*cough*), nursing home work, corrections work, or truck driving, none of which are an option when you’re a single parent who values your human rights! (Moving is OUT.)
Long story short, the powers that be should spend a YEAR in my shoes and see what it’s like before thinking minimum wage is enough to live on!
First, Capitalists saw that there was a demand to increase wages following the pandemic. They purposefully ignored it, running lean, while putting up signs that said "No one wants to work anymore". They knew the issue was wages. They wanted to turn the public against the workers, pressure them into taking barely subsistence wages again. It didn't work.
Then Capitalists raised wages slightly. But in response they raised prices massively. They said this was a result of having to raise wages, except they also made record profits. This convinced the Fed that there was massive inflation, so they increase the interest rates, and the inflation successfully devalues the increase in wages. But that still wasn't enough.
Then, Capitalist hedge fund managers engineered a wave of layoffs for tech companies. This increased the stock value of all those tech companies. It also made the labor market look much more insecure, decreasing the number of people looking to jump around companies, and reducing pressure to increase wages.
The whole point, of all of it, was to suppress wages.
I sold my business at 38 for 102 Million. I sold my house, bought a farm in PA, raise sheep and do not go to a job anymore. Working absolutely fucking sucks. Stop working asap.
'm a 37 year old white male. For fun, I went on craigslist last month and clicked on the first job posting. It was landscaping 17/hr. Hard labor, exhausting work. No medical, no dental, no 401k, no upward mobility. Pay for your own gas to get to job site. I live in the most expensive state in the country, California. Do you wonder why I am checked out???
I love pouncing on the opportunity to state "no one seems to want to pay anymore" in reply to the "no one seems to want to work anymore" bs
People want to work for themselves not someone else's business
I am 42 years old and have never had a job. This is not from a lack of applying as I've been doing so since I was 16. It just seems like no one wants to give me a chance. I've literally only had 5 interviews. So when I hear "No one wants to work," I get pretty enraged.
26 years of bad luck? No 26 years of bad decisions. Fix yourself.
I'm 43 and have had nothing but low paying jobs my whole life. It sucks, but I partially blame myself. Yes I was dealt a bad hand, but that's life.
I sympathize, believe me. It's weird but a lot of people our age seems to have this problem. And I'm glad you haven't lost any objectivity in your outlook. Keep trying and don't lose hope!
I have worked 6 days a week for over 30 years. I am college educated and have not been unemployed for more than 6 months of that time. He is completely right about settling for low wage jobs. You are not missing out on anything. From poor pay to poor benefits to lack of real leadership at companies.
Luck, wealth, and connections are all that matter. Without those three things in the early stages, you ain't NOTHIN'. Acceptance is key. Success is bound entirely by random fortune and being born into the right circumstances. No one wants to admit it, though. And when some unlikely Pygmalion situation rolls along, people say: "SEE? JUST DO THAT! If Bob can go from rags to riches, ANYone can! No excuses. Man up!" 🙄
Meanwhile, the top 1% earn billions, and the 99% are slaves. So, yeah, sure... no excuses. 🤢
And yet, on the flip side, corporations have NO PROBLEM spending millions on hiring the BEST CEO, THE BEST COO, THE BEST..whatever. Never a thought about THE BEST WORKFORCE ,who are the ones that make the money for the corporation in the first place.
Karl Marx whatever you may or may not agree with was right about "workers unite all you have to lose is your chains."
100% agree
They also have no problem hiring headhunters, who do nothing but send emails to people who already have a job at a different company. Or they pay a fortune to consultant companies, because clearly the managers and CEOs don't know what they are doing.
IIRC there's an inverse relationship between CEO pay and overall company performance.
The "best" one? Or their frat bro...?
In 13 last years I had promotions, bonuses, name at the top of the leader board, worked over time months on end... And it's never once prevented my job/team/location from being disbanded/out sourced/ or laid off. I got messed up in a pile up car accident and my employer wouldn't accommodate, while gas lighting me out the door. I don't have a house or any way of living even close to what my parents or grandparents had and by the time I can retire the retirement age will be an age I don't want to live to see. They are right, I do not want to work anymore.
The only way to not work anymore is to have assets - this social order doesn’t reward hard work, it rewards owners for the act of owning…
My hubby was daignosed with cancer. Terminal. His employer said, "Oh, too bad. Now meet quota or get out." Ummm..... What? He's been one of their top people for over 20 years!
@@LeoDomitrix OMG that is cruel. I am glad to see the younger generations refusing to put up with crap like that. So sorry.
There's been recent articles in the media about a "pharmacist shortage" at Walgreens, CVS, etc. There's no shortage of pharmacists, there's a shortage of suckers willing to work in intentionally understaffed pressure cookers while pay stagnates and benefits decrease. I've heard there's some places in Oregon that are offering a $100k sign-on bonus (for 3 years contract). Bigger bonus = bigger dumpster fire.
Why is a 100k bonus bad?
@@scifirealism5943 because that means the store is a huge dumpster fire. So you'd be walking into a mess with everyone angry at you, not enough staff (because everyone else wants to leave), and corporate pressuring you to magically turn everything around. It is a bandaid on the corporate culture of profit at all costs (that phrase is rather ironic). If they truly wanted to fix things, they would be raising wages, offering better benefits and behaving like they value the people who literally keep the doors open (cause the pharmacy can't open without a pharmacist). On top of that, I've heard stories of corporate finding reasons to fire people conveniently just before the 2 year contract is up so you'd have to pay the whole bonus back (with interest).
No thanks, I'd rather skip the bonus for a better company and a better work environment.
@@falconerd343 that's messed up.
@falconerd343 I believe that worker solidarity and poverty can not both exist at once.
The truth of our political values lies in the risks we refuse to accept, and it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that our political and corporate leaders find unacceptable.
@@scifirealism5943 definitely, which is why there's been the constant erosion of workers rights and the corporate battle against unions since inception, but especially in the last 50 years.
It’s always profit over people always. That’s why I want to start my own business soon. I’m tired of the low wages, gaslighting, dumb corporate politics, office politics. Working hard for no reason.
"Why you peasants no come work on my Plantation? This Ferrari ain't gonna pay for itself, and I'm too classy to pick my own cotton."
- Well-Manicured 'Job Creators'
If you have no real skills or a degree, how much should you get paid?
And do you know how people become wealthy,?
I don't think you do
@@youtubesucks1499 There is no such thing as unskilled labor.
@@youtubesucks1499 People get a degree to do the job they WANT to do, not to get paid more. Nobody ever said "Man, I hate engineering, but being a Rocket Scientist is where the bucks are"
Please justify why you think you should get paid _more_ for working 40 hours in the prestigious job you wanted vs getting paid less for working 40 hours in the the job you hate that is slowly killing you.
40 hours of hunter-gatherer time is 40 hours.
Also, FYI: I retired at 43 after selling both of my businesses. How's your life going?
@@youtubesucks1499 "do you know how people become wealthy"? Not through hard work in the USA, that's for sure. "According to a Los Angeles Times investigation, Elon Musk's companies had received an estimated $4.9 billion in government support by 2015, and they've gotten more since." (Business Insider)
Bill Gates got his billions from US patent laws, not from working harder or smarter than IBM or Xerox.
Repeat ad nauseam.
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing So, you confess to extracting pretty much all the value that the workers in your businesses created for you (and the freebies the state gave you such as infrastructure) and living high on the hog off it. Not a pretty picture, Jack B. Perhaps you might read Adam Smith and Karl Marx on the labour theory of value, then repent and become a socialist.
Around here there is not a labor shortage. There is a shortage of good full time jobs that pay a living wage. I know of several local companies looking for workers. Some don't offer enough hours because they don't want full time employees that ask for benefits and they ask their part timers to be able to work anywhere from 7 AM to 12 PM with no set weekly schedule. So you may close on a four hour shift one night and open a four hour shift the next morning then be off for three days. Others require full time employees to be flexible enough to travel to any of their other stores within 50 miles of their hiring store at a moments notice.
I have heard about part time employees expected to go to other company stores when they are needed to fill in. This from Corporate Giants like Walmart, Home Depot and ShopRite. Who’s going to work part time with no benefits ridiculous wages and expected to go place to place in their own car. There’s no Labor Shortage there’s a wage and benefits shortage!
I have had some rough schedules, but I don't mind because the pay has been good. - - The warped thing is that with so many jobs being sent to China, it is easier to earn a decent living here in China than in America. I know I live here in China and used to live in America. I wouldn't go back. Wages are not that low anymore, but food/rent/clothing/gas/basics are much cheaper outside of the biggest cities. A generation ago China was the poorest country in the world, but not anymore.
That is precisely why we don't have robust welfare programs or universal basic income.
Because workers with enough power would never work in fast food or retail, for minimum wage, with 0 benefits or chance for advancement.
And the reason for that is because they like to advertise that they provide benefits, then in small print state that only full-time employees get them, so, of course, only one person in the company is full-time.
A job with a dignified adult living wage is essential.
The people who want us to work until age 70 are the same people who won't hire anyone over 50.
This is a double edged sword. My father was in manufacturing from the 1950's until retirement in the early 2000's In the 80's we started out sourcing and shifting to the "service economy". Way back in the 80's my father said this to me, this will not work. Without manufacturing you have no economy. Fast forward to today.
I agree with everything Mr Reich is saying, I haven’t had a raise in over 3 years. There is a demographic he left out, older 60ish experienced workers get passed over for younger people. I’ve been trying to get a different job for over a year and no one is calling me back. Over 35 years of driving with no accidents no tickets and I get a full 53’ delivered and fill it back up with pick ups on a multiple stop route and no ones calling. I think they want a young dumb full of you know what ,inexperienced person that will work for a lower wage.
"But Bob! We already used up all our record profits on stock buybacks and we don't haaaave enough money to pay employees!" -- Business owners and CEOs
Ain't that the truth. Them and their stock buy backs.
You left out the executive pay raises and stock options. Is it any wonder there's no money to actually hire workers that make those record profits possible!
Last year, I worked at this retail store, and most of the workers were college students. They started leaving one by one because they were being overworked, and we became understaffed. For the last 3 months I was there, the manager didn't bother to fill those positions up and left us pick up the extra work, I gave a one week notice and didn't even show up for my last day. I would often get asked by other young people if we were hiring all the time but no one got hired or even interviewed.
The fed today has no idea what real Americans are going through. Look at the early 1980's. The interest rate to buy a house, yes a house ,was 14%, 14!!! The feds couldn't figure out why we had recessions and the economy wasn't growing like it should. They finally lowered to interest rate and housing sales took off and the so did the economy. At that same time, most workers, like myself, were paid well with good benefits. Eventually, corporate greed took over in the workplace. Big companies cut the top paid workers with BS excuses so they could rate in obscene profits. I was one of them. Now all us babyboomers are retiring and the next generation is smaller. Plus, our kids heard the nightmarish stories for years from us about how bad our companies treated us. So, is it any wonder companies can't find qualified workers!?! I read the other day that some companies are now recruiting older workers offering them good pay and benefits like health care. I'm retiring. I don't want to work any more. So to that I say, F______ YOU big business!!!!!!!!!!
Studies show over 7 million American men are not only unemployed but not seeking work in the age range of 25-55. Overwhelmingly non immigrant, overwhelmingly unattached, overwhelmingly on prescription pain meds and or pot, overwhelmingly receiving SSI or living with someone collecting that. Government partly to blame raiding social security to pay unmotivated people milking the system. Only 10% of that cohort is seeking job training and education. Most spend 20k hours per year staring at a screen for amusement.
Mr Reich is correct pointing out the jobs suck and pay very little. My argument is gotta start somewhere and better oneself and move up to one’s full potential. No none is entitled to anything .
Also, there are a lot job openings that are just a front for companies to be able to say "but we are *trying* to hire people!". There are so many "job openings" that people sign up and get a response like "we decided to go with another candidate" just for the same opening to be posted a few days later, meanwhile they hadn't found anyone, they just weren't actually looking for anyone.
This had crossed my mind some time ago, that it was just a "front"
oh, no don't you worry, they really ARE looking. The say they found someone but are still looking. They are looking for a major sucker! Someone who will work crazy hours, no over time, prolly doesn't have a visa, is overqualified and desperate. These companies are straight up predators. we need arrests and regulations!
I've had that happen to me.
EXACTLY. I doscovered that while putting my resume with lots of businesses. One told me they were collecting names to keep on file, even thoigh there was a desperate sign on their door, begging for new employees. Several others saw an old person march through their door-- and suddenly they didn't need anyone.
Or they're "pipelining", where they post a job they have no intention to fill in the hopes of pooling applications. That way in the next perceived labor shortage, they can just pull candidates out of their back pocket without needing to waste time searching.
It's inefficient in practice, but it is a thing. Had a recruiter tell me about it once.
No one wants to waste away doing a job where all the fruits of the labor are siphoned away and the worker only gets an unlivable wage. This is why greedy corporations are trying to open the floodgates of child labor. They aren't willing to pay us a livable wage, so they'll just try to put the whole family (from as early as possible) into the factory to work for the pittance they're allowed to pay us.
They are? Where?
And this is why abortion is being made illegal..they need more peasants to work.
@@Sharpshooter649 There are some low wage jobs where undocumented minors have been. The feds recently have been addressing this, so child labor exploitation is happening already.
This myth that’s being pushed is a load of crap. Workers need work that is decent and pays a living wage with health care benefits. Thank you Robert Reich.
Who wants to work for abusive and toxic bosses? Who wants high blood pressure and anxiety? Yes, pay us more but treat us like Hunan beings vs too.
similarly, there is no nursing shortage. hospitals employ too few nurses as "proof", but really they want to overwork their nurses and make profits by giving substandard care. also, if they can show a nurse shortage, the government lets them bring in underpaid nurses from other countries.
Sounds like they also want to kill off the patients too as an added bonus.
@@denisemayosky1955 probably just want patients to stay longer, for extended profits. Less profit if patient no longer a consumer.
Totally agree. I retired 5 years ago because the stress was getting worse and 4 of us got mold poisoning from the building we were working in. One of us almost died. Covid put many of my colleagues in retirement. The hospital is finding it hard to find MH therapists to hire in the clinic I worked at. The union has fought for years to get the psychiatry department to meet the state requirements for timely appts for patients. Meanwhile, the professionals still there are burning out at a high rate and leaving. When is America going to wake up and realize how screwed they are.
I'm friends with an RN and she told me that she had to work 12-hour shifts every single day instead of the normal 8-hours.
@@wdcain1 quite true. In fact, the hospital I worked at sent Docs and nurses from other areas to help take of other patients while the ER personnel were taking care of Covid patients and to give them a well deserved break. It amazes me that the same people who dispute the science behind viruses, want science to save them if they get it. The same people who don’t want universal health care will forego getting help because of the fear of medical bills they can’t pay.
No other, I repeat, no other developed country in the world will tolerate this because they have a communal sense that he common welfare of people comes first before selfishness. We used to have that in this country but now profits are more important than people. We have the most expensive health care in the world and are 39th out of 40 countries in outcomes. We want to believe we have the best health care in the world but Singapore, Germany, Japan surpass us in technology . I know docs who left private practice because it cost too much to deal with insurance companies and went to work for groups like Kaiser and other self contained groups so they can practice medicine, not deal with insane paperwork.
It’s a “SLAVE” wage labor shortage.
Sadly this has become even more prevalent and not only in the US. Other countries have even encouraged immigrants from poorer nations just to "employ" them. Sounds familiar?
I know a lot of people just started being self employed instead of working for others.
I also think the problem is employers wanting an education way beyond the skills that is necessary to do the job.
I have seen some office assistant positions require a bachelor's degree.
I can't type for everyone but for me the ability to answer phones, send emails with attachments, and make excel sheets are things I could have done in 8th grade. My intelligence is probably below average so don't get the idea that I was some prodigy either.
Why do employers insist on forcing us to obtain bachelor's degree to do tasks that you could literally get a middle schooler to do?
Because they can and the market is oversaturated, everyone with a pulse should get a bachelor degree. Not matter how much in debt it will leave you and you are expected to pay off the debt that can't be forgiven on meager wages. If you can't well then you're lazy and entitled of course.
A person with tons of debt is often desperate enough to work for less just to pay off a portion of that debt.
That's how the system is designed to keep you perpetually enslaved to the banks. They're all in cahoots. Employers, college mafia, and the banksters.
Try being a nurse with 35 years experience, and new jobs stating BSN requirements where the BSN has to be within the last 4-5 years. A BSN earned back in 1985 isn't good enough?? Along with many years nursing experience?? Don't tell me I don't wanna work. Nursing sucks anyway, so no loss there.
Don't be so eager to be forced into desperation. Student loan debt is *NEVER* going away at this current rate. Why even bother with it
I think a lot of the problem is that most companies use recruitment software that eliminates most applicants from the beginning. Then, the applicants who knew how to "game" the software end up being hired when they actually weren't good candidates at all.
I was just discussing this with my husband and it's definitely and unfair practice in hiring. It's bs AI is making folks lazy.
@@victoriasapp2209 Fake the software out, and be the perfect candidate for any job you're not qualified for. Other people's applications will never be seen by human eyes.
Thank You all for your great service. Truth is, when we (99%) do better, so do they (1%) . Plutocracy anyone.
Now hiring 20.00 an hour
Must have CDL
No moving violations
Must complete paperwork on all work
Must maintain and operate heavy equipment
Must have own tools
Must have ten years experience
Must clean warehouse
Must scrub toilets
Must pass background check
Must pass drug test
Must be able to supervise crew members
Must keep track of everyone's time daily
Must maintain logs
Must be responsible self starter
Must be "energetic"
Must have reliable transportation to and from multiple job sites
Must be willing and able to travel
Must work in all weather conditions
Must be a f'ing idiot to worry about all that for 650 a week after taxes.
I made more than that in 1990.
Absolutely agree with you Robert. Good wages = good jobs = more people working = more money to the tax base = funds for the betterment of society and the infrastructure. I'm seventy years old, comfortably retired because of the era of good paying jobs. Many of these jobs back then were UNION. I don't see that any longer and that's a shame. What kind of future does the young generation have? All I see is corporate greed with high, absolutely absurd sky high salaries for the CEO, COO and other C executives who do what? Plus their golden parachutes. Low wages for the employees in the trenches. That's not the way things used to be and that's the problem. Rich at the top because of greed and struggling workers. A dam shame.
@@Zach-ju5vi shtfup you idiotic troll.
@@Zach-ju5vi Same old Zachoff the irrelevant spewing his deluded babble for us all to laugh at. hahaha
Thank you sir! Finally, somebody from your generation who gets it!
I can tell you what the future is for us younger people. Abject torturous levels of poverty and death from overwork and malnutrition. Good times.
There's also a problem with employers thinking they're going to get applicants with degrees and tons of experience for entry level jobs that don't need a degree. And there's tons of applicants who WANT THOSE JOBS, but their resumes are screened out.
Yeah this is a big problem I've noticed. Far too often I see these experience requirements for entry level jobs when the experience can easily be acquired on the job.
Yeah office jobs are absurd.
I shouldn't need a bachelor's degree to answer phones, send out emails, and make excel spread sheets.
I can't type for everyone but I personally could have dropped out of school as early as 8th grade just to do that.
the places that want degrees and years of experience reject me for being "overqualified". But I had the bad luck to be born too late to have the 10x years of experience middle tier jobs want, so I am just screwed.
Often automatically!
You know why those employers require you to have college degree even though it's not actually necessary? Here's the brutal truth that a lot of you will deny. It's because 99% of college degree holders are seriously deep in student loan debt. So once you start working for an employer you can't say "no" to their crappy working conditions and you have to put up with all their bs. Because you have to hold your job to pay off those debt and that gives them the power to treat you like a modern day slave.
Those "We're now hiring" signs should be changed to "We're now firing".
Social media is also one reason. You see these rich celebs advertise their frequent vacations, buys when the average person is getting burnt out at work and sees simply no way to reach there , they decide to settle with necessities for retirement.
Business owners complaining about a so called labor shortage have forgotten (or ignore) the basic law of supply and demand.
Exactly, Another fantastic video that will no doubt trigger the usual corporate bootlickers that troll here like Zach. Be aware of him and the other trolls with Reich derangement syndrome.
The invisible hand of the free market is only supposed to slap the poor!
100%
Thank you! I hear that all the time from my generation (I'm 56) and it's so intellectually lazy. They think people are living comfortable lives on government aid such as unemployment benefits. Ridiculous.
Even if millions of people could actually live off of government aid and weren't motivated to work or pursue a career, that wouldn't be a failure of "socialist" government, it would be a failure of capitalism!
I don't blame younger people if they are reluctant to take a job in a soulless corporate environment or a minimum wage job which is still nowhere near enough pay to live on.
No kidding pops. I make $447 a week I can’t even stomach the thought of working for part time $7.25 hr
I made $10.50/hr as a cashier at a supermarket. I made less than $500 every two weeks.
The pandemic revealed something terrible about politics: the American economy runs on poverty. If no poverty existed in usa, workers could reject dead-end job offers. Noone would ever work in fast food or retail, for minimum wage, with zero benefits or chance for advancement.
The truth of our political values lies in the risks we refuse to accept, and it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that our political and corporate leaders find unacceptable.
@@scifirealism5943 very sad but oh so very correct
That is true. A lot of people don't want to work which is why they are on the street.
Yes. As I got older the exploitation was becoming unbearable and I dropped out of the labor force. But the late 70's early eighties were a time when you could go to college , get out without much debt and get a job that still paid well compared to your debt burden and at least had at least a little chance to build a modest nest egg . But that got harder and harder starting in the early 80's . As a result, today most people have no chance to say "I won't work because I'm tired of being exploited". I wish they could. Greed and the associated corruption has greatly diminished the quality of life for the average American in favor of Corporate America and the wealthy. Everyone deserves better than what America has become.
And there's repercussions that no one is talking about. Our suicide rate has almost increased by 30% in less than 20yrs which equally decreased life expectancy. This has really hit white America the worst, 80% of those suicides are whites. More white people are dying than being born. That isn't just normal and came out of nowhere?
There are more competition globally today, than 50 years ago,
Competition always drove the price down.
if the goverment are forcing companies to raise wages, then those companies would just hire Thousands of people from Asia,
where they're willing to be paid $1 a day, and deliver an extraordinary result, better than worker in the US ever could produce.
it's, not as simple as "pay them more"
@@jensenraylight8011 Its certainly more complicated because it is so profitable and easy to to seek out the cheap labor and be rewarded with maximized profits and low taxes. And with those profits you can buy back stocks (which used to be illegal) and buy our so called representatives (which was never as easy as it is now) so that there's no chance of legislation being passed to disincentivize the greed that is behind all of this.
@@jensenraylight8011 maybe for low end production jobs and callcenters, which believe it or not are already shipped abroad. How would increasing the wages of nurses and fast food workers cause them to be moved to Asia?
@@wim2445 That job is the exception.
when we heard about companies laid off millions of people, of course most of it is an Office job.
Most high tech companies have divisions filled with abroad workers as well, they're working online.
if you only raise wages of the retail, nurse & doctor, and fast food worker,
there will be a Protest from workers from another industries.
they won't let you have a higher wages,
therefore the solution is,
nobody should have a higher wages.
if you want to blame someone, blame your envious workers from another industry, because they took a great length in sabotaging your wages
Simply put everyone needs to remember without employees there are no corporations.
But but AuToMATIon 👻 will take your jobs. Ooooo!
@@bluejava9397 You still need technicians to maintain the machines and robots. I am in Electrical Engineering right now and I can tell you this for certain. No machine/ robot runs 24/7 without maintenance. Not for any length of time anyways. Another thing they do not mention is it takes a long long time to see a profit from switching to automation due to the extremely high cost of all this tech. It is still much cheaper to hire a person. Whether they admit this or not.
@Joey C Exactly correct! ...and also no customers!
I've noticed a common theme amongst humanity. Everybody believes they are worth more and the other guy worth less when it comes to work and pay. This extends to possessions. When they go to buy, its always with the attitude that they are getting ripped off, yet if they sell something, perhaps online or a a garage sale, they believe their particular item is way underpriced.
I worked an industrial job for 31 years , believe me i didnt want to work
I’ve applied for dozens of jobs in the past couple of weeks. Even with advanced degrees, I don’t seem to have the kind of luck I need to navigate AI interviews and algorithm résumé analysis. Unfortunately, the people close to me believe it’s my fault. But the job sites I use indicate each job I’ve applied for has literally hundreds of applicants, sometimes thousands.
You are not wrong - This is absolutely happening. My friends and I who are looking for jobs in different areas of the country are experiencing the same thing. AI-based resume portals screen good people out at rates that are stunning.
We also have advanced degrees, are highly qualified for the jobs we're applying for, and are still not even getting a callback!!!
Back when I was working companies were looking for the least expensive employee, not the most experienced.
Chin up. You can look at yourself in the mirror and know you are doing your best in an unfair situation. People are brainwashed into believing that anyone who doesn't have the right kind of job isn't trying. You now know that isn't true.
Consider yourself to have received a great big hug! 🤗
This has been my experience for 20 years. Somehow I got put on an AI " naughty list" I presume...so ever since I have been " underemployed " with precarious contract work( despite advanced degrees and by the way, nothing on my record to account for not being hired to FT benefited employment). This during my prime working years I must emphasize, therefore negatively affecting my ability to save for retirement let alone enjoy a reasonable stress- free lifestyle. Now, as a young boomer or old Gen Xer, I'm looking at working into old age to protect myself from penury and terrified if the Republicans get their way, I won't even have social security to call back on in my twilight years. There are a lot of untold stories of struggle underneath the employment figures. 😐
@@8ofwands300 oh, yeah . . .
My daughter has went through the same thing. It isn't just you.