Capitol on January 6, 2021, commentators and media outlets grappled with the question of what to call that event. In the days and weeks after the storming of the U.S. Courtesy of HBO January 6 Wasn’t a Riot.Thanks to several pandemic-relief checks, a rent moratorium, and student-loan forgiveness, everybody, particularly if they are young and have a low income, has more freedom to quit jobs they hate and hop to something else. That means one in 14 hotel clerks, restaurant servers, and barbacks said sayonara in a single month. Nearly 7 percent of employees in the “accommodations and food services” sector left their job in August. For those in leisure and hospitality, especially, the workplace must feel like one giant revolving door. “Quits,” as the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls them, are rising in almost every industry. That Great Resignation? It just keeps getting greater. In August, quitters set yet another record. In July, even more people left their job. Economists called it the “Great Resignation.” But America’s quittin’ spirit was just getting started. In April, the number of workers who quit their job in a single month broke an all-time U.S. I first noticed that something weird was happening this past spring. Sources: Hugh Sitton / Getty Been There YB / Shutterstock Human History Gets a Rewrite But because prices are rising too, inflation-adjusted hourly-wage growth actually declined in September, which is not wonderful. Businesses everywhere are struggling to fill jobs, which sounds bad, but employer pain is workers’ gain, and wages are rising, which is wonderful. Economic growth is booming, but the president’s approval rating on the economy is falling, which is a historically odd juxtaposition. But because of supply constraints, it can feel like there’s a painful shortage of just about everything. But it stays weird-big economic indicators point in conflicting directions-so you have to accept that nothing is going to make sense for a while, and maybe it’ll be okay.Īmericans are buying more stuff than ever before. Like that space oddity, today’s economy is too strange to neatly categorize as “clearly great” or “obviously terrible.” You keep waiting for it to just be normal.
I mean David Lynch’s infamously bewildering 1984 movie version, which is remembered mostly for being a semi-glorious mess. Not Frank Herbert’s magisterial sci-fi epic novel, or Denis Villeneuve’s new and reportedly sumptuous film adaptation. economy right now is a little bit like Dune.
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, the CEO of Serious Games, posted a response on Steam: Slave Tetris has been removed as it was perceived to be extremely insensitive by some people. Users on Steam and Twitter were outraged, calling the game “reprehensible.” The outcry prompted Serious Games, the Danish developer of Playing History, to remove that segment from the game: Players are then rewarded, in points, for fitting as many slaves into the ship as they can. Players are asked to stack the bodies of African slaves into a ship, Tetris style.