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It's not just very high end skills like machine learning. Mike Rowe has done a great job illustrating the blue collar skills shortage. Compare the US to Europe
by malandrew 9y ago
It's not just very high end skills like machine learning. Mike Rowe has done a great job illustrating the blue collar skills shortage.
Compare the US to Europe and you still can't find something as simple as a solid bakery producing bake goods better than the corner store donuts. In SF, you can see how successful one can be as a baker if you have skills by checking out Mr Holmes Bakehouse on Larkin. That place has a line out in front every single day and sells out completely by like 10/11 am.
- coliveira 9y agoIt is not as simple as that. The US industry has driven down the prices of everything, salaries along with that, so only affluent places have disposable income to contract the services of good bakers. Everywhere else a real baker will starve trying to compete with the local Dunkin Donuts. This creates a vicious cycle of lower salaries, less opportunities for everyone. In short, low prices are killing competition everywhere except where the affluent already live.
- rconti 9y agoIt also feels like many of these "good baker" type businesses can't survive/thrive in areas with relatively low population density -- eg, how many people are willing to drive 15 miles out of their way to said baker?