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if everywhere is understaffed but unemployment is low, does that just mean there's too many jobs? someone needs to go through the list of open jobs with a red pen and scratch off the ones that don't benefit society. sorry, pharma reps, you work at a real pharmacy now. good news, outbound call center operators, you're emergency dispatchers now. bad news, MLM distributors, you're distributing food and basic toiletries now.

I realize there are 100000 reasons this wouldn't work and would make many people unhappy if it did

but as suggestions for fixing the understaffing problem it's at least more serious than "let's make it even harder for poor people to survive"


(obviously better pay and working conditions are needed too. we should probably try that before the "nobody is allowed to have a job that I think is useless" thing.)

(also we should be less shitty to immigrants, but more on general principle than for staffing, because that's just passing the problem around. Filipino nurses can earn much more in the US than at home, which is great and all, unless you get sick in the Philippines)


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

i don’t remember where, but i have seen it noted before that we all know there is plenty of work to be done, and one crime of wage labor is that instead of that important work like, say, nursing or childcare or fixing the bridges or whatever, people are only paid to do work that absolutely only benefits the people to whom you sell your labor. i genuinely do feel many people’s talents are wasted at their job of denying insurance claims, for example, and i don’t think that the people who happen to have the resources to hire people should be making the decision of what work is worth doing

there's guy with an asphalt truck who goes around fixing potholes on county roads in the dead of night or whatever and there have been numerous town meetings devoted to asking anyone who has information on the rogue mystery road crew to please, please snitch. so I am forced to conclude:

committee meetings: $12000
contractor permit enforcement: $9000000
road repair: $50 (annual)

someone please help me budget this my infrastructure is visibly crumbling

NO FUCKING JOKE CLIFF there is a road at the bottom of the hill where the creek bridge, that multiple! cars drove on every day, was two pieces of fucking plywood. for YEARS. [edit: my partner reminded me that it was actually 8 pieces of plywood, and also some rebar. this doesn't make "cars were driving on it, daily, for 5 or 6 years" any less terrifying, I believe.]

they finally put in a real culvert about 8 years ago, presumably after a county inspector went past it looking for some other thing and went OH MY GOD HOW ARE ANY OF YOU PEOPLE ALIVE, but I used to walk over that thing every weekend like "damn glad I don't live on the other side of this"