(10-06-2021, 03:18 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(10-06-2021, 02:29 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: I was talking to a farmer friend of mine yesterday.

He can't find a guy to drive tractor for him. He's offering $65,000 salary, a work truck, and free housing. I almost told him I'd take the job myself. Just unbelievable, maybe I'm getting old.

It has me baffled as to what is the cause of this. I realize some people are soaking up dole money, but the good pay for some jobs which remain unfilled is absolutely ludicrous. 

Meanwhile, every busy street corner in Jacksonville is populated with young, strong, healthy looking men who are panhandling and probably using the back of a Help Wanted sign to list their woes. These are weird times we live in.

A part of me wonders if a lot of the people who were able to keep their jobs during the main portions of the shutdown were able to save enough money (since they couldn't spend it eating out, drinking out, traveling, etc.) to then leave the jobs the hated and are still just living off of their savings.  Combine that with any wealth built through the unprecedented bull run of the market, including the meme stocks so many people got into and made money.  Maybe they're just living life and not worried about returning to the workforce yet, meanwhile with the economy reopening the demand for workers has sky rocketed and created this weird paradox.

I have to think it has to be a combination of the above.  I don't think the unemployment is or was enough to float people day to day this long.

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