In reality, more Americans were just breaking up with their old employers to get higher-paying jobs. And that's what the economy's Great Resignation really was: a welcome free-agent period for low-income workers looking for higher wages.
Every month, hundreds of thousands of people were joining the workforce, unemployment was nearing multi-decade lows, and one measure of job satisfaction hit an all-time high. Sure, work is terrible sometimes. But of all the years to soft-launch the theory that 'nobody wants to work,' this was among the strangest.
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