So, not only there is no space ship shortage :) there is actually much bigger worker shortage, as I keep a billion positions open (I want slaves, of all kinds, especially with Wall Street experience) and can't fill them (I don't bother to try).
It’s a free rider problem of profitable corporations on labor of society.
It's not whining, it's a strategy, when interviewing costs relatively little. Even startups spend weeks of interviewing for a single candidate, because prevailing opinion is that it's more costly to hire a subpar employee than to do those interview rounds, even in a jurisdiction where laws allow firing with relative ease.
This also further divides people because of the consistent use of the "Welfare Queen" [1] stereotype by conservatives to vilify people on welfare.
0 - https://reason.com/2021/06/01/the-bipartisan-war-on-work/
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#In_political_dis...