I read an interview, probably from NPR, but I can’t find it at the moment. The upshot was that caring for infants is insanely expensive, since they need one-on-one care pretty much continuously.
But parents can’t afford that cost, so, essentially, the price they charge for infant care is a loss-leader, and parents of older children (who need less supervision and thus more favorable staffing ratios) subsidize the cost of caring for infants. Daycare operators are barely keeping afloat.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
It’s honestly a major contributor to the labor shortage. For anyone with a decent job, it’s significantly cheaper for the spouse to just stay home until the kids are old enough to take care of themselves.
nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Don’t let the media force you to twist your words-- it is not a labor shortage, but a wage crisis.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
“Nobody wants to work anymore” == “I pay so shitty wages that no one can even afford to come work for me.”
Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve run into dozens of people who are complaining about how they have applied to literally everything and never heard back or get rejected for things like gas station cashier and yet those places always put up the help wanted signs. Shortage seems like a fabrication when these places hire nobody and keep the ad up
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 days ago
When I.T and nurses are complaining that they keep getting ghosted and can’t find work? That feels like a major economic failure signal to me. It’s freaking mad.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 days ago
they keep the ad up sothat when roxy and joe walk in in the morning, the employer can tell them “uhm, unfortunately we can’t find any other hire, so you 2 people will have to do the work of 3”, effectively cheaping out of paying another person’s wages.
Zombie@feddit.uk 4 days ago
from Now and After, by Alexander Berkman, Chapter 5: Unemployment. Available to read for free here.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 days ago
A perfectly apt analysis. Thank you for the link. Anarchist Library has some good gems in there!
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 days ago
it’s not a crisis. companies have to pay more if they want to find employees. that’s higher wages.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
or depending on the field, have these BS listing on the job sites, or if thier AI/software is even looking at a cv/resume at all.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
agreed, if you look at specific industry, or different stem industry. its shortage, but its artificially caused one. its the underhanding gatekeeping by keeping out entry level and choosing people already magically having years of experience in a low level position. all sorts of things like ghost listings, "internal hire but make claims of “not being able to find candidates” on the job sites. or its academically suppressed, for CLS(clinical labs) very limited amount of universities teach this program(1 year grad program) but im hearing they have shortages. and where do you think people will try to apply(california, most of them zeroed in on norcal) and only 9 schools teacch it in cali.
_spiffy@piefed.ca 4 days ago
We started by doing dual income as an optional lifestyle and the rich saw that they could make more money that way, and then it became mandatory.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 days ago
The dual income trap