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Originally Posted by Itse
O&G make insane profits. If with all that money they are unable to get people to work for them, they are either idiots or not really trying. What ever the reason is that people are not coming to them, they could afford to fix it if they liked, and still make insane profits.
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This. There is a difference between a shortage of skilled/educated workers, and a shortage of unskilled workers. For the latter, if the wage and benefits are high enough, you *will* attract enough workers. When companies say "we can't get enough workers in these crappy manual labour jobs!" what they are really saying is "we don't want to pay enough to make these jobs sufficiently attractive in the job market to draw people away from other alternatives."
Which is fine, just don't complain about it when that's the decision you make. That's how capitalism is supposed to work, where there is a shortage, prices go up, but it's amazing how many corporations and people think that should apply only when the shortage is in their favour.