Wages will rise to appropriate levels when the government does not unnecessarily and improperly inserts themselves into the labor market.
Lesson Learned from Pandemic Unemployment: Even when employers pay more money to work than people get for sitting at home -- many people will prefer to sit at home and doing nothing if the government is paying them significant money to do this. This is an example of the reason why Communism always fails in practice -- people are lazy.
Let the people have some extra money from the government. They might not even get Social Security in the future, let them have some of their own money back for the time being. The government is just going to waste it on stupid shit anyways. I don't know about you, but a burning question that keeps me up at night is when will more passenger rail service be built in the United States? Never mind that we are in a pandemic, that air travel exists, and that our rivals like China are planning continued strategic space initiatives. Never mind that, hypothetically, let's explore the practical efficiency of business people traveling from the East coast to the West coast via rebuilt Amtrak trains!!!!! All aboard!!!! https://abcnews.go.com/Business/amt...tructure-push-put-rail-back/story?id=77241007 Thanks to Biden's Open Borders and his passion for rail travel, I was able to time travel and obtain these photos from the future in the USA.
We can have a separate discussion about minimum wage. This discussion is about the government paying people to sit home and do nothing while paying them lots of money and not even requiring they go out each week & seek employment. This nonsense has to stop -- there are plenty of jobs available now. It's not like the beginning of the pandemic.