Shift times, workload in relation to personnel numbers, that kind of stuff.
That’s still a funding issue, still a money issue. If teachers were better paid, there would be many more teachers, reducing staffing strain.
The point is that a significant labour shortage does not only mean that companies have to offer benefits and more money, it also means that people don’t get services that are sometimes necessary.
There are a ton of bullshit jobs going around the economy. Maybe a small company of five people doesn’t need a secretary for the boss.
Or there might be product shortages in critical fields. Stuff like that. And that might drive up prices.
Prices are always set at what the market will bear, it’s behaving in a quasi-monopolistic way and that has been quite obvious for the past few years. In Croatia, a consumer strike took prices back to levels seen a year before in multiple supermarkets, yet the supermarkets didn’t go into the red because of it.
And that does not take into account the fact that housing is the biggest inflationary pressure in Europe right now, and it is completely decoupled from immigration, or at the very least, it’s inversely attached, more immigration drives up housing prices.
Look, I get it that in an idealistic way, more business would be great if a rising tide lifts all boats, but since more people won’t mean more competition on the supply side, it won’t keep prices low, only depress wages. I mean do you honestly think immigrants are going to found a business competing with the 2-3 car conglomerates that own everything? Same with tech, same with everything really.
If teachers were better paid, there would be many more teachers, reducing staffing strain.
It’s only a money issue if you think that just throwing enough money at it it will eventually solve an issue. Teachers and doctors do not earn badly in Germany. The minimum salary for a teacher (verbeamtet) I could find was 4756.83€/month. And Beamte in Germany are exempt from social security contributions, have better job security, higher pensions, better healthcare…
The rest of your comment has no relation to what I said though.
it’s inversely attached, more immigration drives up housing prices.
That’s still a funding issue, still a money issue. If teachers were better paid, there would be many more teachers, reducing staffing strain.
There are a ton of bullshit jobs going around the economy. Maybe a small company of five people doesn’t need a secretary for the boss.
Prices are always set at what the market will bear, it’s behaving in a quasi-monopolistic way and that has been quite obvious for the past few years. In Croatia, a consumer strike took prices back to levels seen a year before in multiple supermarkets, yet the supermarkets didn’t go into the red because of it.
And that does not take into account the fact that housing is the biggest inflationary pressure in Europe right now, and it is completely decoupled from immigration, or at the very least, it’s inversely attached, more immigration drives up housing prices.
Look, I get it that in an idealistic way, more business would be great if a rising tide lifts all boats, but since more people won’t mean more competition on the supply side, it won’t keep prices low, only depress wages. I mean do you honestly think immigrants are going to found a business competing with the 2-3 car conglomerates that own everything? Same with tech, same with everything really.
It’s only a money issue if you think that just throwing enough money at it it will eventually solve an issue. Teachers and doctors do not earn badly in Germany. The minimum salary for a teacher (verbeamtet) I could find was 4756.83€/month. And Beamte in Germany are exempt from social security contributions, have better job security, higher pensions, better healthcare…
The rest of your comment has no relation to what I said though.
Nope, that’s wrong.