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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by airstrike on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:08PM (#20384504)
> But, wages haven't improved in the last 40 years for the average person

...in the US.

Growing inequality in the US is driven by the fact that capital gains domestically have improved dramatically alongside wage gains abroad, while wage has been essentially stagnant within the US due to globalization / offshoring / outsourcing

The solution, in my humble immigrant opinion, is to train Americans to take on service jobs that cannot be easily automated / performed by cheap labor overseas. But that requires taking an honest look at the country's education system and neither side of the aisle seems to be able to do that without resorting to anger and vitriol

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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by shims on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:15PM (#20384592)
> The solution, in my humble immigrant opinion, is to train Americans to take on service jobs that cannot be easily automated / performed by cheap labor overseas.

It would also require software developers to take an honest look at our industry.

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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by supahfly_remix on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:17PM (#20384613)
> The solution, in my humble immigrant opinion, is to train Americans to take on service jobs that cannot be easily automated / performed by cheap labor overseas.

What kind of jobs are these?

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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by airstrike on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:15PM (#20394182)
STEM / research jobs and certain niche fields like "high finance" and corporate law. Basically all the things that require a huge investment of time and money to be qualified for... except the education system should make it easier / cheaper for Americans to obtain those credentials versus their counterparts abroad.

Americans should be inventing the machines to replace workers abroad, not competing to be a Foxconn factory worker... This country's biggest competitor is probably Germany, and definitely not China.

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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by beamatronic on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:24PM (#20384709)
Trade jobs. Welder, carpenter, plumber, etc.
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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by jjoonathan on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:36PM (#20384833)
Do you have reason to think the trades have enough aggregate demand to soak up the entire underemployed population at reasonable wages or is that wishful thinking?
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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by fuzz4lyfe on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:47AM (#20390511)
Another question is if this underemployed population could see such great gains by moving to these fields why haven't they already? It may be that they aren't capable of doing these jobs.
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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by jjoonathan on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:27PM (#20384728)
Jobs that will pop into existence if we train people for them, I'm sure.
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Re:The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy by imtringued on Monday July 08, 2019 @02:24PM (#20385322)
Only if they are willing to accept lower wages which is exactly what we are trying to avoid.
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