{"id":5577,"date":"2021-06-16T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:35:55","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-psychopath-labor-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/letter-to-the-editor-psychopath-labor-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Psychopath Labor  shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed for the last several weeks that certain retailers and other big corporations are stating that there is a labor shortage in this country, and they are in a hiring frenzy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Hmmm,&#8230;. for those of you that don\u2019t understand let me translate their \u201ccorporation code talk.\u201d&nbsp; There is NO labor shortage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a \u201clow pay\u201d labor shortage. It seems they can\u2019t find enough people willing to work for a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason they can\u2019t find people is because no one can make a living off of low wages, so most people won\u2019t apply for a low paying job.&nbsp; If these corporation monopolies would just double or triple the pay rate then there would be no problem filling in job positions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they won\u2019t do that because they\u2019re addicted to excessive profits, via cheap labor (and other schemes). Paying low wages instead of fair wages is just another wealth inequality scheme.&nbsp; It\u2019s something that Psychopaths always approve of.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because low paying jobs create anger, division, money fights and stress, and Psychopaths DON\u2019T UNDERSTAND OR CARE ABOUT THAT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ask that you question everything and never stop learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tomas Cantu &#8211; an economic researcher, Concepcion<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed for the last several weeks that certain retailers and other big corporations are stating that there is a labor shortage in this country,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[150],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":150,"user_id":20,"is_guest":0,"slug":"staff-reports","display_name":"Staff Reports","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/0437b672851a8a9f7b27b17b33805122.jpg?ver=1778634720","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}