Montana plans to cancel unemployment benefits to address ‘severe workforce shortage’

gwb-trading said:
Wages will rise when people don't sit at home doing nothing. Would you rather earn $28,000 doing nothing, or $32,000 doing a 40 hour week? Even wages at normally prevailing market rates above what people earn for doing nothing is not enough to induce many to be productive members of society.

In the past prior the pandemic, unemployment had a requirement you had to prove you were actively seeking work each week. Under pandemic employment -- handing out usually more than people previously earned -- this is no longer true. This entire setup is training people to be lazy -- especially when there effectively no time limit on pandemic unemployment benefits and they keep getting extended with no final end date in sight.

A competitive labor market with wages aligned with the local market -- is only possible when the government isn't paying people to do nothing while not even requiring them to seek employment.
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Or employers can finally pay fair wages thats higher than the unemployment wages:cool:
 
Tony Stark said:
Or employers can finally pay fair wages thats higher than the unemployment wages:cool:
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Lesson Learned from Pandemic Unemployment: Even when employers pay more money to work than people get for sitting at home -- many people will prefer to sit at home and doing nothing if the government is paying them significant money to do this.

This is an example of the reason why Communism always fails in practice -- people are lazy.
 
Let the people have some extra money from the government. They might not even get Social Security in the future, let them have some of their own money back for the time being.

The government is just going to waste it on stupid shit anyways.

I don't know about you, but a burning question that keeps me up at night is when will more passenger rail service be built in the United States? Never mind that we are in a pandemic, that air travel exists, and that our rivals like China are planning continued strategic space initiatives.

Never mind that, hypothetically, let's explore the practical efficiency of business people traveling from the East coast to the West coast via rebuilt Amtrak trains!!!!! All aboard!!!!

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Thanks to Biden's Open Borders and his passion for rail travel, I was able to time travel and obtain these photos from the future in the USA.

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Tony Stark said:
Wrong!

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We can have a separate discussion about minimum wage.

This discussion is about the government paying people to sit home and do nothing while paying them lots of money and not even requiring they go out each week & seek employment. This nonsense has to stop -- there are plenty of jobs available now. It's not like the beginning of the pandemic.
 
gwb-trading said:
We can have a separate discussion about minimum wage.

This discussion is about the government paying people to sit home and do nothing while paying them lots of money and not even requiring they go out each week & seek employment. This nonsense has to stop -- there are plenty of jobs available now. It's not like the beginning of the pandemic.
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If employers were paying fairly the jobs would be filled
 
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