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They may not be driving busses, but from what I've heard people like Electrical engineers and some others often have difficulty finding work.
by non-entity 7y ago
They 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.
- pault 7y agoExcept the 10th guy has more stuff than the other 9 combined.
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- throwaway34241 7y agoMaybe we should build lots of housing around (at least some of) the areas where economic opportunity is concentrated. Many US cities exist as they are today due to people looking for economic opportunities in the past (for example Chicago grew from 299,000 to around 1.7 million in a 30 year period). These days it seems like non-professionals are priced out of all the most booming cities (despite there being plenty of non-professional work available). I don't think it's a coincidence that it's currently very difficult to get permission to build in many of those places (in 2014 Tokyo permitted 70% more housing units than all of California, despite having 1/3 the population). The under-supply of housing in places California of course increases the demand elsewhere too since those people that would otherwise live in California have to live somewhere. Basic income could help mobility too since it makes it easier for lower-income people to move to where the jobs are (where they may not have a family safety net). Currently internal US migration is at a historically low level.