When did Small Business Owners Become Gods?

And workers become the unwilling lambs to be sacrificed on the altar of low wages and bad working conditions.

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Apparently small business owners are Gods.

So much so that when they start whining that they can’t find workers because “no one wants to work anymore” due to government handouts in the form of “generous” unemployment benefits, our government seeks to appease them by ending the benefits early and hoping that workers will be destitute and desperate enough to take any position that’s offered regardless of its ability to afford a basic standard of living.

Twenty-five states have ended federal unemployment benefits early claiming that the generous benefits are preventing businesses from finding needed workers as the economy continues to reopen.

The problem with this argument is that study, after study after study has shown that enhanced unemployment benefits have a very negligible impact on businesses ability to hire qualified candidates.

The real issue seems to be people aren’t willing to take on jobs that offer low pay and terrible working conditions, particularly when the virus is still a factor and childcare is still largely unavailable.