The Workers Won’t Be Coming Back, Covid or Not. Here Are Theories on Where They Went.

Samori Toure

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The pandemic made low wage workers realize that life itself is short. They now would rather live, and even DIE, by their own terms. Not by their bosses. :yeshrug:

Something that is even more simple than that is that people born between 1945-1970 have just gotten old and they are retiring. That is a lot of people and America was already an old ass country to begin with and there are just not enough people in this country to replace those workers that have left and are leaving the workforce. COVID just made it worse, because older people don't want to deal with that shyt so they are not going back if they don't have to do it.
 

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S*** if I gotta be broke might as well be stress free. These employees are the most disrespected/overworked, if you single with no family or heavy debt, you can probably afford to thug it out for a minute.

This, I ain’t broke but being stress free is number 1 over everything. I’m bout leave my job and get back into producing and writing and hooping things that make me feel happy to do.


My linkedin blowing up with messages and I love this new labor market
 

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Interesting point about women potentially leaving the workforce with their stimulus checks+unemployment+etc and focusing on their family/becoming a single worker household. The money that would doled out was life changing for many people who didn’t waste it on Gucci belts and Miami flights. Especially if you were in a relationship or marriage.

Even more so now with the child tax credit. A married couple could finance their way into a new tax bracket right now…
 

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People had time maybe for the first time in their lives a prolonged amount of time to ponder shyt like life, lifestyles, happiness, success, mortality... all unhindered.

A lot of people snapped out of the matrix and the lifestyle of living to consume to buy to work to buy and not actually enjoying living. people started putting quality of life FIRST. It was a global wake up call. Our mortality was at question... getting a second lease on life after a pandemic and doing the same shyt again seems self defeating. Mind frames have shifted and goals refocused.

THIS is why the elites have never liked regular people having too much time to THINK. when you are preoccupied with staying alive you don't get the time to do all that thinking. Humans broke structure from work life and we are seeing the results. A lot of people are reprogramming themselves and escaping the outlook of a life consumed with working towards no purpose but to be a consumer. Considering what they actually need to enjoy life. Sometimes it's not more money but more time. Time with yourself, kids, family. Changing your lifestyle to be more conducive to self reliance rather than employment. Overall lifestyle changes that won't be congruent with how the machine of capitalism works. I wholeheartedly welcome the change.
If only it were that simple. Although this is true about people ordering, it actually plays into the hands of the elite. How long could this realistically go on?
 

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"The peak was in July 2020, when close to 600,000 new business applications were filed, up 100% from the year prior. Monthly applications have since fallen but remain about 50% higher than before the virus took hold. Economists say counting entrepreneurs is tricky and depends in part how a person answers the Labor Department’s household survey"

Not everyone jagged that PPP come up.. People actually did real shyt with it..

And for the bold, I always say that stats never ever tell the entire story..
 

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Something that is even more simple than that is that people born between 1945-1970 have just gotten old and they are retiring. That is a lot of people and America was already an old ass country to begin with and there are just not enough people in this country to replace those workers that have left and are leaving the workforce. COVID just made it worse, because older people don't want to deal with that shyt so they are not going back if they don't have to do it.
This is playing a big part. My pops retired during the worst of the pandemic and I’ve seen it at my job. A lot of older folks who were vested and due for full pension took it as a opportunity to bounce
 

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Expecting the remaining workers to work twice as hard to make up the difference doesn't help either. That's why people are now leaving my wife's and I jobs and we work in two totally different fields.
 
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