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Food Shortages Will Bring Social Change
The food shortage is real. Many distributors aren't offering as many products to stores lately, leaving markets and customers scratching their heads. Everyone just labels it as “supply chain issues” due to the pandemic.
Let’s be frank. There’s plenty of food for the time being. But there are fewer people who want to work in the factories processing and packaging it. It’s increasingly harder to find drivers who will deliver it to the stores.
The “Great Resignation” is not just a bunch of bored professionals who quit to become life coaches, it’s about the other people no one talks about. The people who do the more menial jobs that are quitting that we should be concerned about.
Employers will need to incentivize workers with higher pay to keep up with the cost of living. A lot of people are sick of not being able to get by even though they work.
Paying workers more will make food more expensive. But it will get expensive regardless because if there are fewer people to sustain the supply chain, it will create the scarcity for higher food costs regardless.
