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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m going to guess it’s a combination of a couple of things:

1. The companies cleaning services are contracted out to are generally terrible employers that pay the lowest possible wage. In the current labor market, it’s harder to get and keep staff unless you pay more and improve work conditions.

2. All of the anti-immigration rhetoric has driven anti-immigration policy, which means…fewer immigrants! This reduces the labor force, which means labor is in demand, which means (see #1).[/quote]

There are no fewer immigrants these days.  :shock: [/quote]

Incorrect.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/12/net-international-migration-returns-to-pre-pandemic-levels.html

Numbers have been dropping significantly since 2016.  2022 saw a bump back up, but still below previous levels.  This is legal immigration- the drop in total immigration is more significant.  This has been a very big driver in the labor crunch in low skill jobs, especially construction and why construction prices continue to rise even without major supply chain issues.[/quote]

Yup! But facts are inconvenient when all you want to do is complain about dirty airports, how no one cares about service and hard work anymore, yadda yadda yadda.[/quote]

"The social fabric appears to be unravelling: civility seems like an old-fashioned habit, honesty like an optional exercise and trust like the relic of another time. Some observers claim that “the process of our moral decline” began with the “sinking of the foundations of morality” and proceeded to “the final collapse of the whole edifice”, which brought us “finally to the dark dawning of our modern day, in which we can neither bear our immoralities nor face the remedies needed to cure them”.

But as apt as this description of our times may seem, it was written more than 2,000 years ago by the historian Livy, who was bemoaning the declining morality of his fellow Roman citizens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x

Everyone thinks that times were better when they were kids because they didn't understand how the world actually worked, and didn't understand how difficult things were for others.  Same as how they think that the best music was produced magically during the period when they were aged 14-25, and dropped off quickly afterward.[/quote]

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