I didn't either. But with 150 million Americans on it, it's not just young people.

You know how qid was so chaotic durinf the early part of the pandemic and how during lockdowns people were left hanging?

And how now lower wage service industry employers are all sxreamibg about how no one wants to work and they can't hire people to fill those jobs?

I had thought that was mostly explained because people moved up the ladder as space was created with all the death or had used the time to up their skill set, etc.

Turns out a lot of people, 5 million in fact, invested in their side hustles enough to grow them into legit supportive businesses.

They got left hanging by callous bosses and a feckless Congress so they fended for themselves. That's a big part of the labor shortage. They're not labor anymore. They're bourgeoise. Entrepreneurs. Small business owners. Job creators.

And the big corporations aren't happy about it. An Independent population cannot be controlled.

That's, in part, what the focus on TikTok is with the ban. Big corporations tryint to strangle new business growth in the cradle by destroying their marketplace so people will be forced back into low pay jobs.

TikTok gave 5 million Americans a way to survive economicslly during the pandemic because greedy corporate America wouldn't, being too busy recording record profits and findinf new and exciting ways to price gouge average Americans and so now TikTok must be punished for "stealing" their workers.

Swear to God, corporate America is like the worst narcissistic ex you've ever had the good sense to leave. They're like Dracula and the government is Renfroe. Un.fucking.real.