It’s a grim landscape; there’s work to be done and a need for more workers, but it’s more profitable to bleed the existing workforce white than to hire new people in any real quantity.

Facts dude! Objectively correct take. It’s so frustrating that you hear all this “No one wants to work anymore”/“There is a talent gap”/“Our graduates just aren’t a good ‘fit’ for our company” all that shit. There are plenty PLENTY of work to around and workers who just need to be taught how to do it from those who are currently doing. These companies don’t want to hire, they don’t want to train the few hires the few who actually snag a job, they don’t want to take any risk of any sort, they just want all the reward. It’s so lame.