Yes, the stores and butcher did run out of meat for one weak. Yet, Frootloops was well stocked on the shelves but I don't eat that junk. Instead, a cartoon of milk jumped from $5 dollars to $10 dollars. Whole Turkeys jumped to $30 dollars per pound. Meat I eat...I can go out and hunt it and fish for it. Then when hot dogs came back...they jumped from $3 dollars to $8 dollars per pack. Now sitting around $5 dollars per pack but no biggie...I don't eat the junk but the teenagers wanted me to buy some because Canada Day Celebrations is a big holiday...lots of outdoor barbecue and fireworks. Stuff that was in short supply or all out...easily replaced with something else if you don't mind the inconvenience. For example, I had a neighbor that couldn't find toilet paper but he did fill up his grocery cart with tissue boxes (Kleenex with soothing lotion)...that's what he used for 3 weeks instead of Toilet Paper. Last fall while raking the leaves in my yard...I offered to give him a bag of leaves if the stores ran out of toilet paper and tissue boxes. wrbtrader : Toilet Paper,
If they don’t pay a living wage, the free market allows for workers to transition into ones that do. The pandemic exposed the extortion racket that some of these ‘businesses’ in fact are. They deserve to go belly up.
The same reason the army vet posted the pic is one of the very same reasons people in general make bad traders which is..incorrect preconceived assumptions. This was one area I will admit I had to mature into with age. There is usually a story behind what you see on the surface and never judge a book by its cover. Granted some people may very well exactly match another persons preconceived notion about them, we should all be careful painting with a broad brush. Inductive reasoning is not fool proof.
True, but a bit of a strawman. The amount of shares owned by unions is negligible. 84% of all shares are owned by the wealthiest 10%.
This is the actual answer. We are witnessing the ACTUAL free market in action. Companies are dying to find workers and no one wants to go back to work. You could, of course, incentivize them by raising wages or offering really nice fringe benefits (fully remote) but no one seems willing to. So, the free market will take its course and as always daddy government will come in to save the poor corporations. The people propping up the economy need more cash. It sounds likes $40,000 a year is the base wage people would be willing to back for (approximately the wage they earned doing nothing). I can't understand why so many libertarians don't understand this. This is an ideal truly libertarian situation. We should be encouraging this, and allowing the strong the survive. My only gripe is the strong include people who can just weather the storm (walmart, etc) and the bread and butter of America will die off. Raise wages, get more workers. Keep wages the same, get people who will either not work for you or actively undermine you. The math is simple. It's very clear the profiteers are upset they may actually have to pay people instead of leaning on welfare to make up the difference. This is going on tech related to remote work. Except I think tech company CEOs are smarter. The vast majority are offering permanent remote positions. After people started demanding everyone shows up to the office the attrition rate skyrocketed. No one wants to play the stupid game. They made an entire movie about it (office space). If you want workers you bend your knee to them, and not the other way around. This is how the free market works. When you need labor you pay for it at the prevailing wage/benefit package. How fun!
Since the government is artificially depressing the employee supply by pumping free money to people, no, it is not a "truly libertarian situation".
Exactly, it is the likes of Zuckerberg, Buffet, Bezos, Gates, etc. who hide behind numerous tax loopholes up their asses put in place by the likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. To be fair RINOs also, use a lot of those tax loopholes. They ask for tax increases knowing full well, they will not end up paying it. It is the middle class who ends up absorbing most of the tax increases. Some are hidden in the prices of goods rising to cover increased sales taxes and other taxes imposed by extreme liberal Democrats and RINOs on corporations. In the end, only the middle class who has a 9 to 5 job gets shafted because there are no tax loopholes to hide their income.
Exactly, what we have overwhelmingly, now is extreme liberal political hacks. They even censored President Donald Trump. Can you imagine that happening elsewhere that they would tolerate that? Only in communist countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. Of course, Democrats have Socialists, Communists, Islamist politicians right now in Congress no less!