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)
