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“Since the distinction between personal services (likely to remain in rich countries) and impersonal services (likely to go) does not correspond to the traditio
by nodata 15y ago
“Since the distinction between personal services (likely to remain in rich countries) and impersonal services (likely to go) does not correspond to the traditional distinction between high-skilled and low-skilled work, simply providing more education cannot be the whole answer.”
What are personal services exactly?
- motherwell 15y agoWaiter, boot polisher, hair dresser... anything you need to be there in person to do. For everything else, there is outsourcing :)
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoAnd Americans don't like those jobs - so my Vietnamese neighbors will prosper while my American neighbors will go on the dole and complain about immigration. America has split in two: the land of opportunity is still there, but now alongside an entitled class of nth generation unwilling to put in the same effort as immigrants to succeed.
- forensic 15y agoservants. This is the new American aristocracy.
- jonhendry 15y agoOn the plus side, one type of servant is the "batman".
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