The gist of it: with each passing decade there’s a growing shortage of construction laborers, resulting in large wait times for housing to be built. Some analysts wonder why the key demographic isn’t showing up.

I’ve seen a few articles in the past few years about young men supposedly checking out of society and work, I wonder if there is a connection between that and this article here because young men tend to be the prime demographic for working this job.

Companies need to pay their workers better.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Spending 5 minutes on Google shows that the number of construction workers is at all time highs.

    It’s just that a hot economy requires even more labour.

    My 2 cents, the economy could use a rebalancing by raising wages and reducing profits a bit.

    If salaries of construction workers get raised from $40K to $50K, then the number of openings will go down and the remaining workers can focus on the more important work while getting a better wage.