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   Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 03:07:31 JST Tek say resist

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   @publius I believe that it’s always equivalent. Whatever the company, and whatever the task, *someone* will do it for the right price. If the company can’t get someone to do it, they’re not paying enough.

   I mean, for enough money I’ll go to classes to learn COBOL. I’m the one who gets to decide what “enough money” means, though, not the company who wishes they could hire me at the price they’d prefer to pay.

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     publius (publius@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 03:07:32 JST publius

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     "We can't find workers" is not always equivalent to "we're not willing to pay", but when you're trying to fill those positions with teenagers (who almost by definition don't have experience, training, or education which may actually be scarce), it's sure hard to interpret any other way.

     My father is closing in on retirement. One of the folks who works under him intends to leave when he does. There are maybe two dozen people in the world who do exactly what they do. It's a small field.

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     Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 03:07:33 JST Tek say resist

     Tennessee company fined $300,000 for hiring kids to run heavy machinery - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/25/tuff-torq-child-labor-fine/

     > The rising numbers are, in part, being driven by a historically tight labor market that’s led to shortages across several industries

     Tenet of capitalism: the market sets the price. “We can’t find workers”, *by definition*, is the same as “we’re not willing to pay market rate”.