Every business I see is hiring. Businesses are shortening hours because they can't find people to work. Why?
Why is there a labor shortage? This makes no sense to me.
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I'm of two minds about the post growth world. GDP is not a measure of happiness once you get past people having an working class standard of living. We as a society consume endless amounts of stupid shit, filling up landfills throwing away so much stuff and wasting money in the process and fouling the environment.
I mean, I don't want to dictate how somebody spends their money, but it ain't gonna make you happy to have fancy sneakers all the time or that big screen TV. Not to mention how much stuff that's built today just doesn't last, so we buy new shit to replace it all the time.
I pretty much agree. But...deflation would be a disaster, because our entire society is built on debt. I'd prefer zero inflation, which would be possible, if they managed the interest rates better.
The only deflation that would occur, would be that as manufacturing got better, the stuff (like computers) that used to cost a ton get cheaper.
I agree with the lot of what you said, I just think that a lot of people, you included here, mix up escape and happiness. Four score and twenty years ago I was a heroin addict and I can assure you it wasn't.happiness I was buying from my dealer, it was escape. Purgatory. Blotto. I was at no point happy unless I was having a good time despite this escape. I see this all the time and.i just.wanted to pull on your coat about it. Otherwise, as I said, I am in agreement.
I think people are lazy and short sighted. I work for the PO and most people live paycheck to paycheck with no house or family. They dont know how to save money. I spend 7 dollars a day on food. Most people spend 30 dollars in a day between lunch a few beers ect.
Thats for the ones who make it. Most people are to lazy to stick with the job and would rather slide back into unemployment.
There is no work ethic instilled in this plastic society. Im the only one of my friends with a house and no college debt and im half retarded.