Saw a video from How Money Works on why essential workers (plumbers, teachers, nurses, doctors) are dissapearing in, well the video kept using the term "Rich countries".
I knew several of the factors that contributed to this shortage. At first I thought it was a parallel to what is going on in developing nations... but the more I think about t those are 2 different problems. In both types of countries the root of the problem is the low pay against the workload. Hell, I left a teaching position of 6 figures a year in my country to work on english call centers from home because it's still 5 figures a month and I don't have to do masters, doctorates and deal with 40 students per classroom.
But one key difference is that the developing world is not running out of these jobs simply because all in all there's still people going at them. Teacher colleges and Medicine schools still have people signing up to them in droves because those are still guaranteed retirement and steady work. Though I wouldn't say there is the same brain drain problem between LATAM an these countries. the wall between the hispanosphere and anglosphere is still big.
The "rich fucks screwed up this system" discourse is well known, but what I find most interesting is that a lot of the commenters talk about how the health, education and technical sector seem to have had a problem of those professionals telling young people "No... don't get in here, we're full, you can make more money at tech or finance".
I'd say that doesn't happen in developing nations simply because these essential jobs pay just as much as others. Young stundetns cannot be dissuaded and some of these jobs require moving to the goonies and working there for about 5 years while they do bureaucracy to live close to where they were from.
Talking without proof but my guess is that when non-essential industries pay better or the same as the essential sectors, the essential sectors become cartels. This all sounds like something that would happen in developing countries but en the end it's just capitalism forcing people to protect their interests.
It was surprising to hear that foreign workers also move from one country to another seeking the best pay, since I was in the idea that making it out of the developing world would be enough to convince them to work compliantly for wherever they first move. local people do want to take these jobs, but they also want to have a manageable workload and a fair pay. Foreign workers don't get these either hence why they move to work for places with the highest bid.
What I get from those conclusions is that, int the end it's more than just money. local and foreign workers both want to feel in control of their work, and feel they have an assurance to the future. Maybe this doesn't sound like "being part of a community" but feeling a secure future and a fair compensation do open the possibility of wanting to belong to a place over time.
