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With labour shortage wages should increase which can pay for bigger homes and bigger cars which allows families to have more children which ends the shortage.
If the health of workers and their family depend on the employer, wages can be kept low.
And who builds those homes? Labour shortage is already a factor that drives up prices for new buildings. There are too few craftspeople and building projects rise in costs (not saying it's the only factor, but it is one and not the least important). That's what I mean when I say that labour shortage is not only bad for capitalist. You need labourers to get shit done. Less workers, less shit gets done, more people do not get access to shit. Got it?
From that perspective all the workers should meet in one place.
Coincidentally that place is earth and we move the products of work around globally.
Germany would need much fewer new buildings if the population of Germany would not be growing. Likewise the number of employed people is increasing and yet there are not enough workers to build housing.
If costs rise and workers are not compensated accordingly then the market for workers is oversaturated, despite what everybody says.
The shortage in 10 years can be used to sort things out. Then, when things run smoothly, workers from all over the world can be invited to share a good life, instead of now being used to offload the worst working conditions onto them so that everything can stay the same.
You are so far separated from people's reality, I cannot see further discussion as any sort of fruitful. Have fun in your weird ivory tower.
I won't push you any further but please tell me which facts I have got wrong.
Let's start here:
This shows you're thinking onedimensional. People move into cities, cities are already overpopulated, so we need housing in the cities even if our population was shrinking. Also, we don't just need any kind of housing, we need affordable housing, especially for lower income groups. Also, just because the number of employed people is rising doesn't mean the number of people in relevant fields is rising. Plus, you are actually wrong if you think the number of people employed was rising - we are facing a sharp drop off of people in the workforce because the boomer generation is about to retire or are already retiring.