Termyn8or
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Well, I'll start with this : I finally found something Keynes said with which I agree. The shorter work week. Germany actually did that but some say they went to far and now they got what the People call "McJobs". However they are not blaming it in the Chinese or third world labor. They know it is because they are so productive and a big part of the reason for that is technology.
I've long held and said "Now one Man can do the work of ten, what happens to the other nine ?". Usually I left it at that but maybe it is time to delve into it. What indeed ? We got Phds applying for jobs at McDonald's. We got skilled machinists mowing grass. We got me in electronics working for half what I used to make. People say how good things are going but all I am seeing is the lowering of the standard of living.
In the old days me and the olman used to have dinner parties. If you got the invite you pick your steak and season it, I already knew how to cook it, and potato. We had the beer. In the wintertime it was a roast. Sometimes a pizza, I got pretty good at making pizza actually. No food stamps, we worked. And when at least I went to the grocery store I did not look at the prices.
Things have changed. Prices have gone up but wages have gone down. That "they", they don't really need us. In the old days everyone in the shop needed skills to machine a part for a car or whatever. Now, all a guy has to do is to listen and if one of the CNC machines makes a funny noise, disengage it and go find the guy who knows what he's doing. No reading micrometers, hell people can't even read a ruler. Just load the piece of metal and the machine spits it out as a finished product. How much would you pay someone who can't read a ruler ?
The jobs are not coming back. Today's youth got three choices, steal, deal or the military. As such, what is to impel them to learn and gain skills ? Gain salable skills when there is no market for them ? Why bother ?
Vicious circle. You can tell them to go to school but what future can you truly offer them ? And without those skill there are sure to be no new jobs. And this is not a new thing. Companies in the US even twenty years ago some of them had to teach their employees how to read just so they could read the warning signs, like "HIGH VOLTAGE" n shit like that.
Actually, almost amazingly what has improved literacy somewhat is the advent of texting. Not that they can really spell but there were the days when people could not read anything. But that doesn't get them any skills or work ethic. I wouldn't start a business here.
Lose sleep over this, not that there is any sense in it. Find a solution. Government first of all doesn't care and second, most of them are in government because they could never make it in the private sector. And the private sector doesn't care as long as the quarterly report looks good. And even if we had a good workforce they wouldn't create jobs here because of too much red tape with the government, part of which they supported and part of which was created by liberals who have no concept of math at all.
And speaking of creating jobs, the only jobs government can create are government jobs and we don't want that. There is already too much dead weight. The only thing the government can do is to find a way to attract new business here. Since we got a junk workforce, a junk infrastructure and an economically oppressive government (see CA and NY for examples) the jobs you'll see "created" will be at Subway, Domino's Pizza, McDonald's etc.
Look at the people of OWS. I don't have alot of respect for them because they were bitching about having to buy the cheaper Mercedes because they not on the board of directors at a bank after spending $100,000 on a degree in liberal arts, which as far as I am concerned is basket weaving.. What were they thinking ? NOTHING.
But why even get a technical education ? Learn something useful. We don't even make our own drywall. I can understand putting like 50 million smartphones on a boat, made where they know how to run a clean room. But regular ½" drywall ? Plus it has the wrong chemicals in it and corrodes the steel studs. And there is noone to sue. Your house falls down, fuck you go rent an apartment and BTW you still owe the bank about $200,000. Drywall used to be made here, and it was like six bucks a sheet. And it went on wood studs.
But see there is this thing called progress.
The real definition of a conservative is one who wants to conserve. That means money, the culture, all that good things. Sure, get rid of the bigotry and sexism, but still realize the differences. But the good things, it's like most everything has disappeared. Work ethic, jobs, good economy, even the white picket fence.
I need to stop now. For one I am probably getting to the TLDR zone, plus the fact that it is reminding me of how much we have lost. I used to be able to quit a job ad then go get another at my whim. Yup, I would take some time off and party. Then when the money got low I just go get another job. Try that now, no matter how skilled you are.
And the worst part is that it would have gotten that way even if the government and the people didn't fuck it all up. Even if they were competent. But of course it is worse because they are only minimally competent and they do not work for us.
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