America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by janalsncm on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:09PM (#42941317)

Assuming all you’ve said is true, why doesn’t every country have an ATC shortage?

> cannibalizing other talent pools

If we accidentally paid ATCs so much that it ate into the investment banking or high frequency trading talent pools I think we’d still be ok

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by chii on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:26PM (#42943326)

but what if it ate into a doctor or surgeon's talent pool instead?

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by janalsncm on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:15PM (#42953604)

Investment banking and HFT certainly eat into the surgeon talent pool but I’ve never heard anyone say we should pay investment bankers less as a result.

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