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Originally Posted by Mark17
It's not a free market when you have extended unemployment benefits (free money being handed out) for people who aren't working, on one side, and government mandates (forced vaccinations as a requirement to be allowed to get or keep ones' job) on the other.
A free market capitalist would have zero, or very limited unemployment benefits that encourage people to remain out of the work force, and zero forced vaccination, which discourage some people to enter, or remain in, the work force.
The current situation is the result of manipulation, not a free market.
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No, it is not. It is the product of workers finally learning that slave wages and crap benefits are not worth it. Government money ended and we have not seen a downward drift of wages or increased competition. The opposite; the Great Resignation has intensified. Vaccine mandates help attract employees in many areas of the country where people do not want to be around unvaccinated people, who they perceive to be selfish asshats who put others at risk needlessly. Me included: you want into my office, wear a mask and show me your vaccine card. No? Find another employer, because I am not interested. I'm a fat, middle-aged white man with asthma and high blood pressure. COVID would make me its bitch if I get it, so not interested in the excuses.