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Remember the days when travel was relaxing and exciting? In recent weeks, those memories have been overshadowed by the chaos at airports around the world, especially in North America and Europe. The summer influx of passengers waiting to fly since the pandemic began has faced widespread staff shortages at airports and airlines due to layoffs during the pandemic.
Fired workers in the tourism industry now do not want to return to work because of low wages, lack of job security and poor working conditions. As a result of the lack of human resources around the world, thousands of passengers have missed boarding their flights while waiting in nightmarish lines. Often their luggage was delayed or lost. And if all these facts aren’t enough, here’s more: many airline employees, including pilots, are protesting fatigue, stress and understaffing. Due to labor shortages, airlines around the world have canceled thousands of flights, and even more cancellations are expected during the holiday season.
Whoever decided to initiate a wave of mass layoffs in the days of the pandemic should also have thought about how to recruit and train new workers when they were needed again. The expectation of travelers was known in advance, which is understandable – because tens of thousands of potential passengers were already busy organizing their holidays abroad the day after the lifting of travel restrictions. So why didn’t the airlines take care of the task of fully serving the masses of travelers in advance?
Coronavirus has accustomed us to a new quality of life – to work from home in comfort, to appreciate what we can do with less. Therefore, the low wages offered in the industry now offer little incentive to return to work.
In the short term, higher wages will encourage recruitment, but in the long term it will not satisfy their desires. The very fact that this is a worldwide phenomenon signifies the manifestation of a fundamental human problem that might be called the “plague of laziness.
You can’t break the link between cause and effect. During the pandemic, people changed from the inside out, their wants and needs grew. Today they demand more comfort and are unwilling to put in the extra effort without paying accordingly. It is an evolving trend in human society and it is an expression of ongoing development that requires new realization.
After all, the international chaos in the aviation industry shows how unorganized people are on a social level. This is just an example of the situation going on in all other sectors of the economy. Humanity is disorganized on all fronts, and the crisis is not yet at its peak. Until it solves the problems, the suffering and frustration will increase to the point where people can no longer contain them, and will undoubtedly lead to comprehensive (to put it mildly) change.
The lack of interconnectedness between people and the lack of understanding of our human nature, especially as a result of the pandemic, reveal the simple fact that we can no longer enjoy even the short vacations that were once taken for granted.
If humanity does not wake up, the situation will only get worse. It is not human nature to freeze one’s nature; the desire for pleasure will make people demand more and more.
At the same time, people naturally become more lazy, selfish and greedy. Just as there are no flights now, there will be no trains, no hotels, no restaurants or anything else tomorrow. So we have to admit that change is necessary.
Large companies in the economy need to implement a continuous learning process to raise awareness that we live in a single interconnected natural system in which humanity is interdependent. This most initial understanding from our education will develop in us a new attitude toward life in general, teaching us how to direct our selfish nature toward harmony–with conditions of interdependence and mutual assurance. With a mended and improved relationship between us, we can easily motivate workers and advance all systems in the economy to avoid future bumps in the bumpy road of our civilization.
