> The business loses employees to Walmart etc. despite the factory having higher pay and significantly better benefits.

Better pay + benefits than the most rock bottom lowest possible pay + benefits is really pathetic.

And based on the vagueness of your claims, we can assume full-time hours are also out of the picture, meaning no health insurance.

On top of that, tyranical small business owners are usually a nightmare to work for.

It's all full time 4x10 work with the employer covering 100% of health insurance premiums.

There's somethhing you're not telling us or not being honest about.

It's common. People would rather work in a Wal-Mart as it is more social and less demanding. The physical space is nicer.

It’s probably the hours. A lower middle class income is not worth losing my every waking hour over.

Which seniors? American? European? Wealthy? Poor? Sick? Healthy?

Fun fact: If you click the headline, it usually links to a full article which answers those kinds of questions.

Source: American Society of Anesthesiologists

It's a mystery.

Senior Engineers?

Only people with a certain amount of financial security can afford to do that. It is very few people.

Yes. Of all people, Jordan Peterson used to talk about this a lot. He said anybody will break from enough cycles of hard work with no reward, and that's when people do stupid things. The nickel and diming of everything alone is enough to drive a person insane if they don't make enough money to ignore it.

They are 100% correct, I can tell you that with absolute certainty. There is not much to debate here.

The poorer people are that are still able to work, the cheaper labor is. It's really that simple.