Unemployment is also much easier to address than worker shortage. Paying for welfare of the unemployed is far preferable than importation of labour, or a export/downgrade of jobs/companies.
Similar our gripe with inflation as it hurts us a lot but the pains of deflation is a completely different magnitude of hurt on everyone who has debt.
As a self proclaimed Centrist, no the problem is not being in the middle of things but that each side typically more nuance than most sides are willing to concede.
Promotion of a Nordic Model of Economy is still an embrace of Capitalism, Laissez-faire fundamentalisrs will decry the government oversight & taxation, and Socialists will decry the lack of workers/community owning the means of production. Meanwhile the nuance looks at the efficacy of capitalism while mitigating the worst consequences.
You’re asking for people who claim that their missing relatives were abducted by aliens and the government is trying to cover it up?
Pretty sure we’ve all heard those stories.
I wonder and am a bit nervous that this can play out and set precedents that further entrench corporations above the state.