Labour shortages? How about paying a living wage?
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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The median salary in China is 26,800 Yuan (USD 3,855) per month. ^1
What's the living wage in China?
From what I can easily find, it seems to be around 3k-4.8k CNY after taxes, about 3.6k to 5.7k before. This was in 2019, though.
I mean this is China. This is the one-child policy coming to bite them in the ass.
Unemployment is at record lows here but there are still huge staff shortages. It's why my government is pushing for bringing in refugees and allowing more foreign workers.
I've had a job posting up for 3 months in the Midwest USA for a couple of warehouse positions starting at $25 an hour and I'm barely even getting any applicants. We still have a few boomers and GenX in the warehouse but the millennials (like me) and GenZ went to college so they aren't looking for these jobs, at least around here. We're a very small company so the weird thing to me is that this is an easier warehouse than Amazon to work in, by far, and the Amazon hub 10 miles down the road has no problem staffing, even though they only pay $16.00/hr and their benefits sucks ass compared to what we offer. The average warehouse pay in my area for my industry is $18 an hour.
Sounds like you need to get better at recruiting!
Yeah, probably. We have posts up on indeed and in the local papers but we're getting nothing worth following up on. And I don't think anyone hires recruiters to track down manual laborers.
What kind of people are you trying to hire? I mean Amazon will hire anything with a pulse. That may be why they're out staffing you?
I also would hire anything with a pulse since we can train them on the job, but they can't have a criminal record due to the clients we deal with and some work travel is required. It's also messy work -- fiberglass -- and a lot of people don't want to do that (and I don't blame them lol).
Ah there it is yeah that makes sense. Hey at least your doing the right thing offering better pay and benefits. Eventually someone will be willing for the better pay, assuming you offer the appropriate PPE. Hey your user name makes sense now! I love it!
My user name is actually a Metal Gear Solid 2 reference lol
How about "NO"?
“Labor Shortage”=“no cheap, or near slave- labor”
Well there is now!
Username.... does not check out...
Are these robots going to buy the goods and services?
Seems like full automation creates no consumers.
UBI is an inevitable future. the only question is when, not if. And probably the countries that will be able to create a better law quicker than others will get a decent economic advantage over the conservative ones.
I don't see it. They're fine with letting people fight over garbage to eat.
Yeah but they need people to have enough money to buy their shit so they can get richer.
so, who’s buying their products once everyone is unoccupied?
Will they need anyone to buy their products at that point? They've already won capitalism and they have multiple mansions, robot slaves, AIs, and automated farming.
In "Theory" it would drive down priced and the people buying from these places would have more money to spend elsewhere.
Theory in air quotes because regardless if it work out in the end it still takes away a lot of power from labors.
And that will push capitalism to the breaking point. We'll see what happens then, although many very bad scenarios are possible.
The oligarchs will probably throw a fit and kill us all.
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I'm enjoying the irony of the automatic ai summary to read this for us.
I'm surprised they only made these guys 5' 4" tall. Seems kind of short. Figure they'd have greater abilities if they made them taller, though maybe they'd fall over easier, I don't know.
Well, at least this one doesn't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger... yet.