Presumably you've been fully supportive when the likes of bin men, nurses, doctors, teachers, amazon workers, rail workers strike for better pay and conditions?
Relatively speaking in a short space of time, at least in economic terms, we've seen huge technological advances which mean you need less people to output the same amount, closed down most of our manufacturing industry, offshored everything we could, moved large numbers on to zero hours contracts in the gig economy and added a large number of women to the workforce.
Put simply between staff and students you've accounted for about 3.5m people. That's about 10% of the working age population you don't need to worry about.
Now you could say move those people to the care sectors and other industries short of staff but its easier said than done. Look at the number of kids and uni grads complaining about applying for hundreds of jobs but not getting anything while there's all these vacancies. How do you increase the pay and conditions in those roles to attract people? Relatively small pay increases in other sectors we are told comes with the risk of financial meltdown for the country. You'd probably be looking at 25-50% pay increases for people to consider some of those jobs.
I'm already getting into debt paying my Dads care costs, if they shot up overnight I'd be fucked and I'm far from the only one.