Unemployment claims rise to 240,000, highest since August

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12. I get in and out faster, I pack my own bags the way I want them packed (I have to walk them

nearly 2/3 miles home, so how they are packed is important. That way I don't have to repack them).

I'm sorry about the workers, I really am, but with so many jobs begging for workers, I'm not going to stand in line waiting, and then stand there some more when I could be doing something. If they were actually performing a service (saving me some time for example), it would be a different story. But not for a dozen or two dozen items.

Same as I don't go to a bank teller when I want to withdraw cash, I use an ATM.

Same as I don't buy and sell securities at Vanguard by phone (and pay for the "assistance'), I do it with a few clicks online.

Same as I don't try to find a full service gasoline station, easier just to get my rusty dusty out of the car, lift the nozzle, and put it in.

Same as I don't insist on a switchboard operator's help when I make a long distance call.

Same as I didn't have a secretary take dictation, and then go over draft after draft after draft with them. I type it in my computer instead. Because its quicker.

Same as I go to a fast food place when I'm by myself and in a hurry, rather than insist on full table service every time.

We have severe worker shortages around here that have impacted me personally. So I'm just not going to stand on my head and jump through hoops to find the most labor-intensive way to do everything because it makes me feel like a wonderfully wonderful "progressive". Finding the most labor intensive way to do things is not the way we improved living standards over the past few hundred years. Au contraire.