Re:Oil companies scramble to find workers despite boom
by kodah on Sunday May 01, 2022 @01:49AM
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No need to concede anything, it's just a fact. Oil is used for more than just energy, and those products won't be replaced in our lifetimes. You could try to bet on battery advancements beyond Lithium Ion, but we're a ways away from that too for your claims.
The lazy conclusion that you can just throw money at a problem and make it go away is just that. Those people need to be retrained and will need support as they are retrained, 100k isn't going to touch that. I wasn't speaking for anyone, just a long standing belief I've had about most blue collar jobs that people want to elimate. I said the same thing when Hillary Clinton said something equally as callous to coal miners.
For the record, I 100% do not concede this point.
Also I spent my early years as a pipe welding man in Oklahoma, so if you think you speak for some kind of fuel-producing working class I am here to inform you otherwise.