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Unemployment is low in the US though? what type of jobs do high school grads do? and would working in a (let say) doll factory be a better job for them?
by yodsanklai 1y ago
Unemployment is low in the US though? what type of jobs do high school grads do? and would working in a (let say) doll factory be a better job for them?
- downut 1y agoThey move to where the jobs are. And the small town where they got their schooling hollows out.
- s1artibartfast 1y agoor they dont move, get angry and resentful, and want to upset the economics system.
- rangestransform 1y agoThey move to where the jobs are but the ones left behind without a big-city job have disproportionately large political power and disproportionately little education. Letting land vote was a generationally catastrophic mistake, the US has a political system suited for an agrarian/early-industrial/frontier society rather than an urban industrialized society that also happens to be hegemon of the world.
- vel0city 1y agoAs a high school grad with nothing but a diploma I got jobs working retail, doing data entry/discovery for a law firm, working the graveyard shift as a receptionist for a 24-hour facility. Are those better than doing factory work? I don't know. The discovery one was pretty cushy, but still rather monotonous.
- xeromal 1y agoA lot of people work dead end jobs at walmart or trucking (which is another industry that has taken a big shit like manufacturing) Manufacturing and trucking jobs and the like paid 20-40% above what you could make at Walmart and other big corporations. I grew up in a rural town and people decry losing jobs to places like walmart. That said, I still think the bread and butter of american business are all the small businesses that are still kind of trucking. Small construction companies, small engine repair, home repair, mechanics, etc.