I've always had a particular dislike of major corporations in general. I know many of them offer a service we rely on for a lot of modern things, but it's a lot of first world problems. Well I've been watching a lot of essays on the great resignation and what it means. Basically people are quitting in droves, and between that and COVID, there's a labor shortage. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. For a long time workers have been at the mercy of their employers, relying on their paychecks to get by on the day to day. But now that mentality has been upended, completely flipped on its head! Now that there's so many positions open out there, people can actually work for an employer that will treat them right. I've always thought this for the longest time, why should people get stuck in a job that they don't like? Employers should be competing for our work, we shouldn't be competing for their jobs! That way in essence people who need work will find it with an employer that will treat them well and pay them a living wage. The ones that don't will struggle to find workers, so in a way it's making the work environment better for everyone, and we won't be exploited for labor any more. I feel bad that the circumstances leading up to this had to be a pandemic, but it's time for people to really start to re-think how the job market should work. But we still have other problems, too... Despite all this it is still expensive and time-consuming to get an education to get a career. A first step (which I'm sad they never got passed in congress) would be to make community colleges free AT LEAST. It's not the same as allowing people to become upwardly mobile, but it's a good step in that direction. All in all the cost of living is still way too expensive, so hopefully by the time this is all over that will right itself.
On a more personal note I'm waiting for those interest rates to rise, when that finally does happen, I'm planning on buying a new house. Affordable housing is hard to come by, especially where I'm from, and right now it's a seller's market. In time it will become a buyer's market again. Hopefully sooner rather than later, but between that and COVID becoming endemic, once we start getting back to a new normal (because fuck the old normal, the old normal sucked anyway, and the new one is only marginally better), then there isn't a need to inflate everyone's garbage on the housing market.
