There is a growing disequilibrium between the number of available jobs and the declining pool of workers needed to fill them.
As a result, some in their early- or mid-60s simply retired early and never came back to work.
Other workers figured they would not make all that much more by working and so are staying home on government checks.
Still other former full-time employees became used to the new, more leisurely lifestyle and are loath to return to a full 40-hour work week.
Many are willing to put up with worker shortages now, rather than hire too many employees only to have them idle when consumer demand soon crashes.
Millions of COVID long haulers remain either unable to work or can only work part-time.
For now, Silicon Valley has not produced its long promised artificially intelligent robots that would allow machines to do much of the work of people.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/06/the-disappearing-american/
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