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Mark's avatar

As a worker in an understaffed area, I'd argue that our understaffing (it's clear to my coworkers and I that we're providing higher productivity per worker than pre-COVID) makes the decrease in real wages even more acute than you would get by inflation adjustment alone. We basically got sold a raise that supposedly accounted for our increase in productivity, then inflation ate away all of the raise to the point where it didn't even work as a cost of living adjustment.

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Surely it must be the case that some nonzero percentage of the job-seeking workforce are consistently, well, not very good workers. What, if anything, does the literature say about overall consumer satisfaction as we inch towards zero unemployment and the overall daily experience starts including semi-regular, high-memorable crappy interactions?

Genuinely curious about this. I don't even have good anecdata, never mind real data.

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