SoylentRox t1_j2f5461 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 8:27 PM

Reply to comment by AndromedaAnimated in Game Theory of UBI by shmoculus

Surely people will change their tunes when there's no jobs available, right?

I don't know how it is in Germany, but in the USA, the combination of early retirements partly driven by covid, and generational differences in the number of children have reduced the number of workers. There's pretty much a labor shortage in every industry. Anyone without a criminal record or major disability can probably easily get a job. (I won't say this is necessarily true nationwide but in high and medium living cost areas it is)

AndromedaAnimated t1_j2fdp4v wrote on December 31, 2022 at 9:30 PM

It’s the same here. Employee search notices everywhere. But the people in the workforce AND the employers still pretend like it’s the jobs that are scarce and not the workers and the wages have not improved much beside the government-imposed minimum wage policy. It’s still hard to get a well-paid job and people are still being treated badly in their work environment. It’s the mind that needs to change. The market will follow.