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Which just so happens to be one of the main points of the article. What are our governments going to do with the masses of unemployed blue collar workers? The
by baguasquirrel 17y ago
Which just so happens to be one of the main points of the article. What are our governments going to do with the masses of unemployed blue collar workers?
There's no quickie solution for this. We believe here that you can't just scale a tech industry (i.e. churn out massive numbers of CS degrees a la India or China and hope some magic happens). Then how can you similarly retrain that entire blue collar workforce?
Now I'm not suggesting that a massive government intervention is going to work. Whatever solution we find that works in the end is going to have to be more deep and creative than anything on the table right now.
- pragmatic 17y agoDo you believe that we will find a solution? What brought us out of the Depression? WWII? I don't know and nobody knows how to "fix" this. I'm not arguing with you, just making the point that no one can wave a wand or pass a law to make jobs. Yes, you can employ a percentage of the population with make work jobs (WPA jobs like my grandfathers had). But that only keeps people from starving and rioting. It doesn't fix the problem.