On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > It sounds to me like your just an apologist for a governmental and > corporate strategy designed to maximize wealth at the expense of the > everyday citizen. > > When the vast majority of people are workers that can no longer afford > to buy the big screen TV's and fancy cars, or when they continue to > lose their homes, often due to deceptive albeit legal business > practices, and we all work at McDonalds, WalMart, and Home Depot > (smile) what will happen? The entire governmental and economic system > will collapse right out from under those in power. >
People will wake the fuck up and start learning useful skills like ENgineering rather than majoring in Poly Sci and other interesting but unemployable bafflegab? You're conflating two issues here. 1. Immigrants always work cheaper than natives. This (to a lesser extent) often is true of 1st generation natives vs. those who are multi-generation natives. The foreigners you're complaining about stealing jobs locally are almost overwhelmingly likely to be either just as American as you are, or Landed Immigrants on their way to becoming citizens. 2. The only low-end jobs which are retained anywhere with a high cost of living are service jobs. The only service jobs which pay well are the trades. If you don't want a low-end job, get some training which is in demand. Science and Engineering degrees or tradeskills. The continuing devaluation of the status of both in the US is your real problem. People will flock to high-status jobs and degrees, but most of those in the US have either bruising workloads (Law, Stock Markets) or have very few high-paying/high-status options. As long as people in the US prefer B.A's to B.Eng's you'll see the economy move to service jobs as companies move the good work to where the skillsets are easily available. -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
