Thread 509231514

Nobody can find a job, every offer on linkedin gets 100+ applicants... where tf is this "labor shortage"?

>>509231514 (OP)
Well duh.

>>509231514 (OP)
There is no shortage of milk in those jugs

>>509231514 (OP)
It means wages are too low.

>>509231514 (OP)
nipalz

>>509231514 (OP)
shortage for slaves working for peanuts 6-7 days a week 10-12 hours, without workers rights.

"Labor shortage" is vague and not sector-specific. There are hundreds of people applying to high-paying and comfy jobs, but few applying for the shit jobs nobody wants.

>>509231514 (OP)
A true labor shortage results in wage increases. If you aren't seeing wages go up, there's no labor shortage.

>>509231514 (OP)
Don't know about Belgium but in the US companies have discovered that there is no consequence for lying about labor shortages. They can lay off 1000 employees and the very same day claim there's no one available to do the jobs they just removed workers from. As long this continues to be the case, this phenomenon of people not being able to find jobs while employers claim no one is looking will continue.
As an interesting aside, an ICE raid on a meat processing plant a couple of weeks ago netted seventy illegal aliens. The company had no choice but to hire local legal Americans so the plant would keep on operating. Over a hundred people applied for those seventy open positions despite that industry insisting that these are jobs that Americans won't do.

>>509233274
maybe your world view is too simplistic
for example, companies refuse to raise wages even though by traditional economics they should have to. and instead they import cheap third world labor

>>509231514 (OP)
Yes. The truth is Capitalism needs an over supply of Labour IE unemployed people to keep wages down.

>>509231514 (OP)
Does the west manufacture anything? I mean, I guess we do have factories for making dog food and such.

>>509232967
>but few applying for the shit jobs nobody wants.
Its the opposite for me

>>509233274
simple as, law of supply and demand

>>509231514 (OP)
Labor shortages are created in low IQ sectors.
In my region there's a serious lack of slaughterhouse workers/butchers, but the only way you can get qualified to work as one, is not having finished high school, so 95% of normal people are fucked out of that job, only nafris and rapefugees can get in, but they don't want to/"can't" butcher animals the normal way.
I wanted to work as a garbage man, but I'm not allowed to, I'm "too qualified", and yet there's a shortage of garbagemen, and they will not take me because legally they would have to pay me just 150€ more than anyone else.