[HN Gopher] Workers Don't Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms
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       Workers Don't Want Their Old Jobs on the Old Terms
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-08-24 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | DudeInBasement wrote:
       | I can see why people just read the headline click bate. That
       | whole article could be summarized to just a few words
        
       | bsder wrote:
       | And yet no employer wants to offer full-time or _stable_ part-
       | time hours.
       | 
       | This is really the hitch.
       | 
       | Once you've set up to deal with not being employed, why bother
       | coming back for an unstable, shitty job?
       | 
       | Anecdotally: working low end hospitality has become shittier. It
       | seems like a lot of the nice customers are still infrequent and
       | mostly staying home, while the selfish customers are going out
       | (quelle surprise). Quite a few restaurants I frequent have
       | stories about needing to call the police for patrons assaulting
       | the waitstaff when they never needed to pre-pandemic.
        
       | anm89 wrote:
       | "The growth of the Internet will slow drastically... By 2005 or
       | so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the
       | economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
       | 
       | - Paul Krugman
       | 
       | To fight this recession the Fed needs...soaring household
       | spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan
       | Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq
       | bubble.
       | 
       | - Paul Krugman in 2006
       | 
       | Paul Krugman believing something is an incredibly useful
       | heuristic for that thing being completely false.
        
         | lbarrow wrote:
         | Because he was wrong two times? How many times did he make
         | correct predictions?
        
         | mikestew wrote:
         | Instead of dredging up a couple of old quotes, how about
         | refuting the article that is linked at the top of the page?
         | Because unrelated quotes do not a refutation make.
        
       | _Microft wrote:
       | If you are shown a sign-up screen instead of content: enter
       | reader mode and then reload the page from there. This worked fine
       | for me in Firefox.
        
         | excalibur wrote:
         | Alternatively https://archive.is/WR2LA
        
           | _Microft wrote:
           | Archive.is doesn't work nicely with Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS
           | service btw, so if someone has issues with this link, it
           | might be that.
        
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