> To which I say, that's not the frycooks fault and the EMT should be paid more. Worker solidarity & all that jazz.

Hell no, I used to be that fry cook too dude. Just cause I traded my kitchen clothes for a button up shirt doesn't mean I do not understand the struggle.

The economy is "allegedly" a delicate balance between inputs, outputs and the poor bastards in-between caught in the cross fire.

The labor market isn't well, we can both agree that benefits and wages need to rise and certainly it would not hurt one bit if products and housing inventory went down in price- but that likely wont ever happen.

A lot of our GDP is caught up in health care. A staggering 80%. This is why lobbyists are always shut down things like single payer health care and my republican fellows are too retarded to realize that they should adopt a progressive stance on healthcare because every single american would benefit from it. Politics aside, our economy needs to pivot from services / tourism and move into production if we want to see more better paying jobs. It's all too clear that Covid taught us we cannot rely on other nations to produce product things for us - we need to make more products or we are going to have a hard fucking time putting food on the table, or even having food at all. The fact that farms and manufacturing keep getting shut down in the states is absolutely appalling and the incoming generation needs to fix this - we cannot rely on globalism to fill in the gaps of our needs.

Anyone want to talk about artisanal cobalt mining in the congo? bet ya'll don't know what kinda hell those fellers go through so we can have lithium ion batteries.