Inflation here? gas/grocery prices just continue to climb

You'd be surprised. In contract negotiations with a couple of companies, I've heard them grumble that nobody wants to work because of all of that stimulus money.

That's why I posted it. I find the notion that nobody is working, and that the unemployment numbers are inflated to be ridiculous.

Right now, in The People's Republic of Indianastan, the unemployment rate is 2.2%.

Of that 2.2% you'd have to believe that a big chunk of that is churn. People moving from one job to another. You'd also have to consider how many of them can't pass a drug screen. How many can't work ridiculous hours because they have children and child care is so expensive. You also have to consider that, if you're an employer, maybe nobody wants to work for YOU.

Too many people acting as managers who know nothing about it acting more like failing, cold war era, high school football coaches than managers. That act hasn't worked in a long time. If word gets out that you're a difficult employer, good luck to you.
Here’s part of the issue. The declining work force has been well known for years. Due to a lot of factors, a lot of people are retiring early that I know. Selling overpriced houses and moving where they bank hundreds of thousands of dollars and a good early retirement. The Boomers are leaving faster than was projected, and Gen X has been maxed out for years.

There simply hasn’t been enough young workers entering the workforce because there are simply not enough of them to replace the boomers. Immigration used to make up the difference, but the last few years tightening that up has had some serious issues with replacing population with immigrants, and those immigrants going back 20 years in California have not kept the larger family sizes that they projected, and are having more along the lines of 2 kids or less which doesn’t help.

Want to be scared though? Wait 20 years. These newer generations aren’t having many kids.