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In reply to the discussion: What It's Going to Take to Claw Back Middle Class Wealth from the 1% [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)the one now which is not exclusively but substantially is an ever decreasing need for labor of all sorts without which our present economic system has no answer for the many. No question the value of labor issues remain and are actually increasing, those organization can be a big part of mitigating but the page is already turning on that chapter to such a large degree that even working miracles with participation won't begin to protect from the coming wave. Raw numbers of supply and demand dictate it. High level specialties will have too few positions against the population to matter how much the few individuals can demand, while those below reach up and create a glut of the pool of those qualified which puts downward pressure on wages.
Everything else will have more looking than can possibly be needed, driving those wages toward any legal minimum or zero.
Every "shortage" is resolved with a little hype and a touch of old fashion bootstrap mythology. It is always a matter of a rounding error's worth of need to transforms very quickly to a glut with ever increasing demands for career wide decrease in wages. Next thing you know the RN's we were in a desperate shortage of are scarcely employable and BSN's are sought instead but if you really want to get ahead you need to be a nurse practitioner, RN's are a dime a dozen.