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>> If everyone were guaranteed a reasonably pleasant job, suited to their interests and needs and paying a living wage, who would do the grungy, difficult work? Austrian employers, like those in America, are currently having difficulty hiring people to take hard, poorly paid jobs; ma....

That the answer. Pay people more to do the jobs nobody wants!

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Or pay people less to do the pleasant jobs.

Or if not pleasant, then at least the jobs that people are intrinsically motivated to do.

This is how America treats its teachers. Teachers want to do the job, so skimp on their pay and call it a budgetary victory.

Other countries will choose to value teachers, and pay them well, and generate more competition for positions, and reach a higher general level of qualifications & abilities.

Don't we already? That was the reason work lots of people enjoy doing, like game development, paid peanuts and/or worked through so many people.

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