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You can't ease all of it, but if you are going to sign trade deals that benefit some workers over others, you should compensate the workers who lose their jobs.

• hiram112 11y ago
  >there can be solutions like wage insurance, free or subsidized retraining + relocation, and basic income. I hear this idea of 'retraining' offered as the panacea to globalisation in every article promoting it. What exactly are we going to retrain these workers in? The referenced article made the statement that one of the fired worker's daughter has a degree, yet makes a third less. Sometimes it is spouted that they'll retrain in IT, becoming those elusive software devs the big corps just can't seem to find. But this BS is not being swallowed much anymore - the easier IT and dev jobs have already been offshored, those that can't are filled with H1Bs from India. College grads in liberal arts fields can't even find shitty service jobs in most places outside the coasts. So what skills, exactly, are a former assembly line worker going to learn? The problem is that we have more people that need to work than jobs available. The fact that we continue to export jobs, while more and more workers are replaced with machines, and allow uncontrolled immigration into the US leaves us with problems that won't be solved by some community college or wage insurance. And the establishment still feigns surprise over Trump's massive rise...