>>510336529>a shortage of skilled workersNot really. They need unskilled, badly paid workers, because you need dozens of those to "support" a single skilled worker.
Our politicians are still trying to force our young people to become "skilled workers". Our school system still often produces people barely capable of understanding what they read after 10 fucking years.
>a lack of affordable childcareWe didn't have enough children of our own, because we forced both partners to work full-time in order to raise the GDP. Childcare doesn't raise that unless you monetize it.
>and frustrating levels of bureaucracyBureaucracy is not an evil in its own. If it's a tool to enforce (market) rules that work for the well-being of everyone, that's fine.
If it's but a means to dictate people how to live their life and companies how to operate down to the very last detail, like it's starting to look like over here, then it's evil.
They think, their people are so fucking stupid after graduating from the public education system, that they can't look after themselves. That the state has to be there for them at every single step.