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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by estearum on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:53PM (#46529775)
You want Americans doing non-competitive work in an increasingly competitive global economy?

Why?

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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by ashtakeaway on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:27PM (#46530392)
Reddit is that way ->
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Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year by estearum on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:10PM (#46531838)
This comment is literally just numbers about how the US has ceded low value add jobs and dominated high value add jobs.

I am asking why this is intrinsically a problem.

Or if it's not intrinsically a problem, then what are the downstream consequences we should care about, and can we talk about them explicitly instead of just assuming the best way to mitigate them is to put our economy into reverse advancement.

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