worker/housing shortage in tourist areas

[GraceinMotion]

So, here is another report documenting the long-standing challenge of the worker/housing shortage: https://www.wjfw.com/storydetails/2...meet_in_minocqua_to_discuss_employee_shortage
It states this is a "conversation that is just getting started." Man are they way behind the ball. Good grief, this has been going on since well before I was fresh out of high school almost 40 years ago and worked a summer in Wisconsin Dells. We were holed up in a small motel, sometimes 4-5 to a room with 1 bathroom. No car, no bus service--some kids walked a few miles or biked to their workplace.
Seems like they need input from some nomads who are willing to work and just need a place to park, with minimal amenities like fresh water and maybe bathroom/shower facilities, and of course, internet.
How hard would it be for businesses to offer that?

 

[Dingfelder]

If employees want things any better, they are likely going to have to make demands. Hard to do in an economy and entire social system that regards workers always as costs rather than assets. Only if there is no choice will many if not most employers budge an inch, if only out of principle.

 

[ByeBye]

Worker drones have no say. Take what the big boys give ya or choose another path. It's the way of the Corporate oligarchy that disguises itself as democracy.

 

[maki2]

It certainly is not just happening in tourist areas. But an aggressive town or even state who set out on a campaign to attract a ton of tourism never seems to think of the consequences of how to house all the new seasonal workers if their campaign is an overnight sucess. They just focus on the potential for increasing the taxes from profits and figure that will be enough to sort it all out.

 

[Dingfelder]

Businesses and city councils have a lot in common. They don't necessarily care about the true costs of things -- they care about whether they can
"externalize" the costs. That is, whether someone else can be made to shoulder the liabilities while they reap the rewards. Whole businesses and industries are built non-profitably to great heights purely on the basis of externalizing costs.

Sometimes it's just wishful thinking ... a lot of businesspeople and politicians are far more conniving and silly than actually bright. Or else they figure their tenure will be over before the chickens come to roost, and in the meantime they can produce quarterly returns that justify almost any stupidity ... temporarily. By the time the price to be paid comes due, they'll be gone, and if anyone cares, they can blame it on their successor, obfuscate, or be beyond indictment. Either way, it's a win and they leave fat and happy regardless of performance. It can be a pretty sweet set-up when you can function as if whatever happens down the line doesn't exist.

And there will always be politicians clamoring to help you do it, so long as everyone gets a chance to wet their beak.

 

[ByeBye]

They care about profit, bottom line...period. Accept it and plan accordingly.