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Every year the same article. No one is forced to work at a temp agency or retail. If it sucks so much, find a different job.

Yes, yes, I know, it's not that easy. But it actually is.




But it actually is.

Hell yeah. Get off your lazy ass, and go spend tens of thousands of dollars getting an education that makes you employable (just put aside for the moment the fact that your years of compulsory education left you good for nothing better than packing boxes). It's that easy, everyone. Economy down? Well maybe you should invest massively in industry and spark a boom so there are more jobs. If you aren't doing that, you're just not trying.


Why don't they just move into the tech industry, an industry filled with those that proclaim the worthlessness of a degree and a low barrier to entry?

Or are they not fit for tech? Is there something that sets them apart and makes them lesser than your typical dot commer?


HAHAHAHA. Laugh rather than cry, right? This is simple economics: there's a certain population of people, a certain amount of basic wealth and resources. If an individual figures out how to get a good job and not temp or warehouse work, all they've done is figure out how to be the one who gets that other job. Yes, the overall system can be flexible, but it is IMPOSSIBLE for every warehouse worker to all get good jobs at once. This is a social problem, not an individual problem.


as a business owner and employer of several skilled high tech and unskilled call center workers, i think you're wrong.

it's not easy finding a better job, and it's also not easy hiring better people. in fact it's real hard to do either of those things.

if you have, in fact, solved this fundamental problem of labor market efficiency, please go ahead and collect your nobel prize and be sure to explain it real slow for us dumb underachieving slackers during your acceptance speech.

when the number of people far outpaces the number of jobs, "just try harder" is not a solution to this problem. i'm pretty sure, in fact, that NEITHER conservatives or liberals think this is the solution to a massive correction in the number of jobs like the one the US just went through in the past 3 years.


I'm one of the people who would say it's not that easy, and I'm a little confused by using "but it actually is" as an apparent counterargument. Could you please elaborate?


13.8% of the population are unemployed or underemployed. They must just not be trying.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

"U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force"




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