If only there was some mechanism that would allow “demand” to be met with “supply”

Here’s a business owner with a CRAZY idea:

As his six restaurants started ramping up for a post-pandemic world, Brian Will was struggling to find employees, so he went with the classic economics response for hard-to-find things.

He paid more.

Will raised wages for jobs like dishwasher and hostess from $8 or $10 an hour to $15. And he bumped up pay for those on his staff already at that level.

“We started to get a better quality of applicants,” he said. “And the employees we already had, the ones that we gave raises to, they stepped up their game.”

Clearly, Will does not understand Republican dogma, in which very wealthy people are hypersensitive to marginal changes in their compensation but there’s simply no way to make jobs better to attract working class workers.