[ska]

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago…

At the end of the day, industries are principally responsible for the health of their workforce overall. If there is a shortage, it is a failure of leadership.

That is why “labor shortage” is such a mealy-mouthed term. It treats labor as external to the process, something someone else is supposed to “provide”

[mcculley]

The failures of industry and government in this case are obvious. That doesn’t change the fact that there is a shortage. I agree the shortage is due to myopia.