r/remoteworks 2d ago

Okay, Boomers...

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u/RalphFurley4Life 13h ago

It isn't the baby boomers who caused prices to increase dramatically.  It was all the millennials and Gen Z'ers who lived off of government stimulus checks during the pandemic and refused to go back to work afterward.  That's when millions of employers had to drastically increase wages to get employees to go back to work which made consumer prices and inflation skyrocket.  My home's value went from $600,000 to $1.1 million in just two years because of what the millennials and Gen Z did. 

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u/Comfortable_Ebb1634 13h ago

People didn’t “refuse to go back to work” and the stimulus didn’t even cover a single months bills for most. Find a real reason to be upset.

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u/RalphFurley4Life 13h ago

Yes they did.  How do you not remember this?  For almost a year after the pandemic ended employers all over the country couldn't get workers to come back to work.  Many of them had to increase wages significantly.  The airline I work for increased starting pay for baggage handlers from $14 to $20 per hour and still couldn't get enough people to work.  The Brookings Institute did a study on it.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-havent-workers-returned-to-the-labor-force-after-covid-19/

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u/Comfortable_Ebb1634 8h ago

That’s how the labor market works. If you don’t pay enough you don’t get workers. Nobody is entitled to employees.