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We have more than a few factories in our area offering barely $40k for incredibly specific skillsets involving various types of machines, totally unwilling to t

We have more than a few factories in our area offering barely $40k for incredibly specific skillsets involving various types of machines, totally unwilling to train. This is actually a really good explanation for how so much of the technology in the Warhammer 40k universe is unknown and worshipped; nobody was willing to train anyone on how it worked.

r_smart 10y ago
On topic: $40k seems pretty decent for an operator, though with training. Off topic: I'm still new to WH40k (started running a Rogue Trader game), but my impression is that the tech ignorance was a mixture of a psuedo-religious cult seizing control, information lost in the many wars, and the intentional intellectual poverty of the populace that keeps them docile.
- ryandrake 10y ago
  > On topic: $40k seems pretty decent for an operator, though with training. Depends. Any mention of a dollar figure must include the region in the US, or it's totally meaningless. A 40K salary could easily be really good, really bad or normal.
  - r_smart 10y ago
    Yeah, I realized that after I posted my comment, and should have probably gone back to edit it. Thanks for pointing it out.
  - FussyZeus 10y ago
    That's true and even I don't have a point of reference as it's not my industry, it's just a regular feature of our local papers to have the local businessmen complaining about the lack of workers. I checked out the job listings out of curiosity. Whatever the case, apparently it's not enough since they can't attract people who are willing to work for that wage.
eli_gottlieb 10y ago
If we're comparing our own training and education systems to the Cult Mechanicum, then I think we need to train everyone to a higher level in everything. In fact, more radically, we need to reform intellectual property law in a way that incentivizes making institutional knowledge into publicly recorded knowledge.

r_smart 10y ago

On topic: $40k seems pretty decent for an operator, though with training. Off topic: I'm still new to WH40k (started running a Rogue Trader game), but my impression is that the tech ignorance was a mixture of a psuedo-religious cult seizing control, information lost in the many wars, and the intentional intellectual poverty of the populace that keeps them docile.

ryandrake 10y ago
> On topic: $40k seems pretty decent for an operator, though with training. Depends. Any mention of a dollar figure must include the region in the US, or it's totally meaningless. A 40K salary could easily be really good, really bad or normal.
- r_smart 10y ago
  Yeah, I realized that after I posted my comment, and should have probably gone back to edit it. Thanks for pointing it out.
- FussyZeus 10y ago
  That's true and even I don't have a point of reference as it's not my industry, it's just a regular feature of our local papers to have the local businessmen complaining about the lack of workers. I checked out the job listings out of curiosity. Whatever the case, apparently it's not enough since they can't attract people who are willing to work for that wage.

eli_gottlieb 10y ago

If we're comparing our own training and education systems to the Cult Mechanicum, then I think we need to train everyone to a higher level in everything. In fact, more radically, we need to reform intellectual property law in a way that incentivizes making institutional knowledge into publicly recorded knowledge.