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1. somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2017 23:53:23 UTC somercet

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   >If there are job opportunities that are not being fulfilled, it is in any country's interest to remedy that.
   
   Simplistic yet wrong. No one is arguing that jobs must go unfilled. I am arguing *how* they are filled.
   
   America in the 1910s: formally trained people are a small core. (Small enough that the two military academies are significant sources of civil engineers.) Lots of people have technical experience but no formal qualifications. A minority, but still a large number (skills are a power law distribution) are "unskilled" workers.
   
   Business A's response: the trained core is put in charge. They surround themselves with the experienced-but-uncredentialed, who act as foremen for the large group of technically unskilled people. Eventually, the business starts aptitude-testing workers and providing formal training ("hiring from within"). The unskilled force is able to make things they would be unable to alone. By and large, they show up, they don't complain, they get the job done, they refer corner cases to the foreman: all "negative virtues," yes, but even the absence of vice can be a virtue.
   
   America in the 2010s: Skills are still power law distributed. Business aptitude-testing was outlawed by the US Supreme court (Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 1971). Expensive, land-grant (i.e., oligopoly), 85% public universities provide the "skills," but many of these are useless and entirely unrelated to actual jobs (e.g., waiters with English majors).
   
   Business B's response: the trained core is put in charge. No pyramidal company structure is created. Instead, H-1Bs are now used to bring in workers from overseas, who live in the US entirely at the pleasure of the corporate "sponsor." Human Resources now exists to eliminate "mediocrity."
   http://hrdusa.com/As_hire_As.html
   Production is farmed out to third world countries. The culture barrier and lack of infrastructure is costly, but the business frees itself from the over-extended "job protections" in the U.S. put in place by unions (1870-1970):
   http://cesspoolofhumanity.blogspot.com/2010/08/proud-racist-history-of-labor-unions.html
   The "unskilled" pool is put on "social services," or "welfare" or "the dole" for those of us not addicted to "euphemisms." The ruling class tells them welfare is just as good as work. But welfare provides no sense of productivity or mastery (however low the job), just a constant awareness that your father or grandfather was a citizen, a worker and an asset, but you are merely a burden.
   
   The world from 1910 is a healthy, organic society, *and* part of world trade. The society from 2010 is a dystopian hell hole, all thanks to your policies.
   
   Point 2: I'm sorry you missed it entirely. It seems very simple to me. @clacke @dtluna