There's a big ass difference between international murder and an angry lash out killing someone. At 87 you're going to die from stuff that a random angry drunk won't consider.
Companies have to raise wages, and industries that aren't productive in terms of their use of human capital are driven out of the market (aka: why it's so common to use illegal immigrants for farming jobs in the southeast).
As a result of higher wages, investing in human productivity becomes more profitable and someone finds out how to automate one of the jobs.
There are eight jobs.
There are ten people.
This cycle is why Western productivity has plummeted. We started trade with china. Why invest in productivity when you can vacuum up a bunch of farmers and just have 10 more cheap workers doing the job?
Those times are gone now.
It's all connected, and at it's core is the fact that COVID shocked the market, created lots of labor demand and also booted lots of boomers. You can't just fix it by just raising wages. Places will go out of business. We will have to change our way of life.
You already see it. Walmart and the likes aren't open 24/7. Fast food is getting more and more expensive (it's just not a sustainable use of human life anymore). These are all good changes, but it's still all due a labor shortage.
Unfortunately it looks like influenza B and C aren't actually all that common in the first place with A being in animals and causing most pandemics. This dead virus is a half of influenza B. It's neat if we killed it off, but probably not any benefit to public health.
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