Nobody wants to work anymore

[The Grand Nudger]

There's some asshole looking to hire exactly me out of a pool of me, locally, and he's probably imagining that I'm collecting too many benefits to work for his wages. Nevermind that my labor has been off the market for nearly ten years and that the last time I sought employment based on my skills..they were already paying less than I could accept. That, if I wanted to go back to making boards - I wouldn't work for them..or live here, anyway.

I realized long ago that I made more money not working for them than they could ever bring themselves to offer. In the interim, I managed to pay off my debts and my wifes debts and my late fathers debts (further reducing their leverage) and increase my wealth while my peers are - apparently, saddled under a debt they will never be able to pay off in their lifetimes. People I used to envy are homeless. Convince me, in the 20 to 45 minutes of the average interview, that I got all of this wrong and should come back hat in hand, even so?

-and why...because they're hurting. Boo hoo...you're bad at business. Not my problem. Not anyone's problem but their own.

It's rough, I know that most americans haven't fared so well in the same frame of time - to the point that we're looking to bring The Wife's parents up and build them a little cottage and provide them with a busywork job that covers their necessities ...including their tithes to fucking god...... precisely because a known producer like my father in law can't find anyone to pay him a living wage anymore. It's almost as if younger cheaper employees, even in this time of covid, who may or may not have his abilities....... have taken his job, or something..even as we all know that no one is taking any job anywhere on account of how Biden made us all maharaja by unanimous decree......................

My sainted goddamned mother, bless her sinful heart, who outright owns everything she touches, and who has no children who do not likewise own everything our eyes might fall upon - is working for minimum wage at a gas station making fries - for fun - just to see living human people. She's turned down better paying jobs - and I bet they think she's at home collecting demoncrat largesse, too. The wife is a journo from fucking kent state - who (very successfully) sells people on sub-rotten-ron-wage-jobs. At the end of the day, I grow flowers.

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-right on cue, The Wife calls me as I type the last bit. She's going to be director of associate care in the se us for one of the largest staffing firms in the world. It's the last job she'll ever interview for - and the only reason she even got the chance is because the last guy stepped out on account of not wanting to get the plague. She's cheaper and more qualified than he was - and I like the guy, I know his kids, I make the carnitas for his staff soirees.

Covid has been windfall for my family. Why is it, again, that competent business is incapable of exploiting this moment? When the housing bubble collapsed, we grew. When the world got the plague, we profited...tell me again why these sadsack business owners are having trouble making ends meet, and...more importantly, why anyone should give a shit???