America Is Running Out of Everything The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. By Derek Thompson

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    unemployment insurance and several rounds of stimulus have allowed laid-off workers to be picky about jobs, instead of desperately lunging for the first paycheck available. That doesn’t sound like such a bad thing. But [...]

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      The stimulus checks were like $2k or whatever, wasn't it? Why do they still bring that shit up? Holy shit. People really talk like that. Even that plus, what? $600/w in unemployment was it? 33k is just under median wage in 2019. That's depressing because that's not a comfortable amount of money. Honestly America should just stop having an economy based around giving the world <$16/hr for serving treats to boomers and gambling on which company serves them treats the best. That's all I can take away from this.