the sameway it works in Sweden/ norway/ switzerland/ etc.

So a lot less people with mimimal immigration? We don't have that

sweden has minimal immigration lol? lol lolol

sweden has minimal immigration lol? lol lolol

28-34 an hour doing what?

Telecom construction management

Used to get applicants that had administrative background or project coordinator backrounds…literally getting zero applicants now, and even in high populated areas

The only jobs not getting filled is food service. Apparently people don’t like getting paid $2/hr and not getting tipped.

More comp and benefits, or no more wage slaves. That's the deal

I dont get what you’re saying…

The reason nobody applies is because everybody is making more than $30 hour with health 401k etc now

So why are you surprised you aren't getting applicants if you're offering less than what they are already making?

1) you can't get evicted

2) stimmies and unemployment

That was a question…I know that it is actually the higher end than the norm

Is this a srs bread Muzzbrah? First Secretary Xiden is paying everyone unlimited unemployment or whatever. 95% of minimum wage employees would much rather just take 70-80% of their chit salary and do phuck all than clock on and a trivial amount more.

That's probably why they're minimum wage employees in the first place.

mcdonalds pays 11 an hour at a location I was at for a while that’s like three bucks above minimum wage who the **** actually pays minimum wage that **** must suck

Okay brah, sorry for not using the exact phucking industry average salary figures in my misc comment. Thanks for the completely necessary, 100% non-homosexual correction.

The lack of punctuation threw me off lol. There has to be some reason people aren't applying. Is it dangerous? Is it the type of job that very few are qualified for? $30 an hour is 10k over the medianhouseholdincome in NC so if nobody is applying there is a good reason

Like I said earlier the only jobs where I live that aren't getting filled are the types of jobs where you couldn't afford to live on your own. I talked to a guy a the state DOT yesterday and he said they aren't having any problem filling openings. They have great state benefits but the pay starts between $20 and $25k and the work is hard. I think one of the reasons they can get people to work is because there is a clear path to progression in that career. Sure, it starts low but if you show up everyday and do your work you can move up pretty quick and even if you don't stay there forever you have some experience for your resume. Retail and food service isn't like that.

I don't get it. Covid comes and everyone loses their jobs. Jobs come back and no one wants to work. Wtf even is this?

That's the point though... Forget supporting a family, if you can't support yourself through your job why do it? I understand there needs to be jobs for teenagers and such but don't expect adults to jump all over $8 an hour gigs. At that kind of money you might even be losing money after factoring in gas and increased caloric requirements as opposed to rotting. No one has any trouble filling jobs in the $30k, which isn't a lot of money btw, and up range around here its just the minimum wage 32 hour a week jobs that go unfilled

Edit: Wizard above me said the same thing but much more concise

I saw a job posting that wanted a masters degree and only paid $19 an hour.

A ton of places have been doing this **** for the last 10 years. Looks like people are tired of it.

I don't get it. Covid comes and everyone loses their jobs. Jobs come back and no one wants to work. Wtf even is this?

Ah, well this is where I think UBI would be better than what we have now. Because at present you can actually get penalized for trying to work and earn money.

Benefit cliffs, aka a well meant, but very stupid feature of public benefit programs.

If people got a flat "per head" payment then there would be no disincentive to work and earn more money. As is earning $1 too much can leave you thousands of dollars worse off in terms of government benefits.

Also we spend a lot of money employing paper pushers to administrate all of the different programs.

If we paid "per head", had single payer healthcare [not necessarily "free" to the end user], and served actually nutritious high quality free meals in the schools for all children I think a lot of things in this country would get much better.

There would no longer be an incentive to NOT marry the parent of your child [more government money] or to have MORE children [more government money] or to work FEWER hours [more government money].

Employers wouldn't be burdened with the cost of health insurance which would be a huge boon to small employers in particular. Employees wouldn't be tied to work because they need the health insurance [more entrepreneurs, more people able to retire].

I know that most miscer see UBI [or negative income tax] and single payer as anti-capitalist, but I sincerely think that the actual outcome would be positive.