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There is a classic capitalist ploy, documented in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, where business owners vastly over-advertise the abundance and remuneration offere
by d_burfoot 1y ago
There is a classic capitalist ploy, documented in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, where business owners vastly over-advertise the abundance and remuneration offered by a certain area of work. Then many hopeful people uproot themselves to go into that field, so supply and demand pushes down wages, benefitting the owners.
- kcb 1y agoMore people should go into the trades. Says the aristocrat with legacy admission kids making sure they can hire a plumber for their next remodel.
- bcrosby95 1y agoIf you've got ambitions to be a small business owner trades are a fair place to land. If you don't then avoid it like the plague.
- lxm 1y ago> many hopeful people uproot themselves to go into that field uproot from what, though? It's not like people disrupt their investment banking careers to become plumbers. The alternative (perhaps a pointless college degree with debt + barista job + realtor license) is worse.
- wnc3141 1y ago"learn to code..it's the future"
- lispisok 1y agoJust like the software industry!