Can we stop blaming the world for employees not coming back to work?

Lately, I have seen so many stories about restaurants and other small businesses having a hard time getting employees to come back to work. They blame stimulus checks, unemployment checks, covid fears you name it. It’s the government’s fault, right? Yesterday I saw a post on Facebook asking why this generation doesn’t want to work, why are they so lazy? As a practice I don’t comment on social media, I think it’s usually a waste of time and energy unless it’s something positive. But the amount of complaining and whining is reaching epidemic proportions.
This pandemic has lasted more than a year and you had that time to rethink every aspect of your business. Did you really think it was going to just return to the way it always had been? That one day a switch would be thrown and we could all go about our business as if nothing happened. The old ways of doing things are gone. People want to be paid better for their hard work and they should be. People want to actually have quality of life, why is that a bad thing? During the course of last year did it occur to you that maybe you should change the way your business operates to attract quality employees? Did you think about changing your menus, prices, hours of operation, training, or business model? Did you think that maybe it's time to adapt to a new world and maybe take a long hard look at your business model and think about new ways to bring in revenue? Or do you just want to keep paying people the same low wages, with no benefits, long hours, and expect them to come running back? Maybe not.