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>there have always been other jobs that either (a) people could switch into that were still somewhat fulfilling That may have been the case till post-WW2 econo
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>there have always been other jobs that either (a) people could switch into that were still somewhat fulfilling
That may have been the case till post-WW2 economy where if the refrigerator factory you used to work at got moved to China, you could take those skills to the car factory next door, but most of the industry jobs left in the west today, that haven't been offshored or automated away, are highly specialized ones that require years of training or higher education and don't have many transferable skills between them, and there's no way you can simply switch to those jobs without that specialized training the employers with those jobs are expecting you to have. It's a lot easier these days to find yourself obsolete and unemployable.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoBarbers do require months (though not years) of training, but obviously there is no reason for that to be the case.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoBarbers aren't an industry job nor a job you can offshore. Neither are doctors, teachers, policemen, garbagemen, plumbers ... you get the point. Vital service jobs will always be safe, especially unionized ones at government or city level. But I was talking about industry jobs in the private sector, like my coding job and my friend's job at the local car factory which on the other hand ... well, we're not too safe from automation or offshoring if our companies don't stay bleeding edge, competitive and highly profitable for them to decide it's worth investing in us metatags further.