By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/03/2026Meanwhile, that employee is absorbing a gigantic amount of frustration and abuse from customers who are paying high prices and enduring long waits - another cost that CVS shifts from their shareholders to someone else (workers, in this case). 16/ 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/03/2026Finally, CVS demands that publicly funded police respond to the inevitable shoplifting and other security problems created by running a big-box store with a skeleton crew, shifting costs from the business to *everyone* in the local tax-base. 17/ 162
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/03/2026In "Not Enough Workers For the Job," *The American Prospect's* Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein looks at the systemic trend towards understaffing that has swept across every sector of the US economy over the past five years: prospect.org/2026/03/19/u... 18/prospect.orgNot Enough Workers for the Job - The American ProspectUnderstaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds. 161
