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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by mschuster91 on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:59AM (#27421128)
> Which is a fallacy of composition - unless you believe you can turn a dumpster diver into a brain surgeon just by applying some amount of training.

So... take the workload of one brain surgeon, and hire two brain surgeons with 20 hours a week each?

Of course society would need to (drastically) expand training capacity, but it would be better off in the end.

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by neilwilson on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:56AM (#27424055)
That's precisely my point. There aren't enough people who are capable of being brain surgeons. The majority of us cannot become one. We're just not good enough.

That was always the failure of the 'socially necessary labour time' idea. It assumes complete fungibility amongst people, and that isn't the case.

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