There is healthy demand for lower risk employees. It's a big ask for an employer to sink $50k into an unknown employee. If we want people to make bets on the in

There is healthy demand for lower risk employees. It's a big ask for an employer to sink $50k into an unknown employee. If we want people to make bets on the inexperienced and untrained, we need to lower the stakes. $40k/year is a big bet. Telling people to just find another industry is well and good, but what industry will pay a 55 year old underemployed person full salary and benefits just in case they're a tragically misunderstood diamond in the rough. And this is a real problem. The employment rate is in the basement. There are structural issues that need addressed.