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Originally Posted by RainMaker
he cost is what the market says it is. If there is a shortage of truckers, it's because not enough people feel it's worth their labor to perform that task at that pay. Those jobs would be filled if you increased pay.
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According to the US Dept of Labor, as of early 2019 there were a million-plus more unfilled jobs than there were people looking for work. Now let's assume that all of those jobs offered an eight-figure salary immediately and were filled with everyone who wanted a job, nevermind the fact that most of those people aren't qualified for the jobs available and wouldn't want many of them anyway due to factors like stress, location, hours requirements, responsibilities, and so on.
There's still a million-plus unfilled positions. Hmm. Well, let's have them increase their price to nine figures. We'll start shifting around where people work, but the math's never going to work out to the point where we don't come up short somewhere. There simply aren't enough qualified and interested workers to go around, to add on top of the other issues. This is a simplistic and in some ways extreme thought exercise, but it's a very straightforward way to demonstrate the reality that there is *way* more going on than 'pay them more and you will have enough workers'. No, there's a lot more to it than that.