[yourapostasy]

> ...I've seen plenty of job ads that were more or less "we have job, come work here". It's like they don't even try and then proceed to step 2: complain about the labor supply.

This kabuki theater by business political advocacy groups is a perverse form of the old Soviet joke "they pretend to pay us; we pretend to work", except the pretend on the part of labor hasn't taken hold yet at large scales. Perhaps a perverse form of a Potemkin village is a more fitting picture.