Stimmies killed the McJob
A recurring viral genre during the lockdown is photos of signs on the front doors of low-waged establishments (especially fast food restaurants) asking customers to have patience with long wait-times brought on by staffing shortages “because no one wants to work.”
These signs go on to claim that “overgenerous” unemployment benefits in the Biden stimulus have encouraged work-shyness among the lazy slobs of the working class. It’s a complaint that’s been picked up and amplified by the US Chamber of Commerce.
They’re not entirely wrong.
After all, the subtext of these signs is, “Our pay is so low, and our working conditions are so awful, that only the truly desperate would do this job. In forestalling that desperation, the federal government has deprived us of our workforce.”
40 years of wage stagnation and the Clinton-and-onwards destruction of the social safety net has left workers so desperate they continue to do their jobs, even as their employers stole billions from them, with virtually no penalties for wage-theft:
https://apnews.com/article/how-companies-rip-off-poor-employees-6c5364b4f9c69d9bc1b0093519935a5a
