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I don’t know any engineers driving busses (or the equivalent). The company I’m working for is currently looking for a lot of new ones, too.
by xkde 7y ago
I don’t know any engineers driving busses (or the equivalent). The company I’m working for is currently looking for a lot of new ones, too.
- xkde 7y agoWhoops, I thought we were discussing our personal experiences, not just whining about “the system”. My bad.
- non-entity 7y agoThey may not be driving busses, but from what I've heard people like Electrical engineers and some others often have difficulty finding work.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoAn additional complication is availability of work may be concentrating in fewer geographic regions. There very well may be a shortage of engineers for engineering jobs, but not in the same place. And yet another complication is the perception of long term security of available jobs might be less than before, so moving for one is not an easy decision.
- non-entity 7y agoAh yes I forgot to add that I'm speaking from a US perspective. I'm recalling a comment I read on HN a while back claiming that a lot of the EE jobs moved to east Asia as the manufacturing already went there
- xkde 7y agoAnd what do you propose we do about that?
- lotsofpulp 7y agoI have no idea. Wealth transfer? Training programs? Basic income?
- xkde 7y agoSo, in order: 1. Stealing from Peter to pay Paul 2. Good idea. Make it happen. 3. Also stealing, but if it were to replace the system we have now (which won’t happen) it would at least be more efficient.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoCall it what you want, but the alternative is living in a society with extreme wealth/income disparities.
- xkde 7y agoNo, the alternative is adaptation.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoWell, I guess all those people living in tents under the freeway in Seattle have "adapted" then. Problem solved!
- xkde 7y agoAnd the only reason for that is you haven’t taken enough of my money?
- brookhaven_dude 7y agoIt's not "stealing"
- xkde 7y agoWhat would you call 9 people in a group of ten voting to take away the tenth guy’s stuff because they wanted to? I call it what it is - stealing. Greed. Envy. Interestingly, it will probably lead to more equality; it just won’t be what you’re expecting and I don’t think you’ll like the result. At this point though, the people probably deserve to get what they want and get it good and hard.