Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Hammered

Re:Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Ham... by dataker on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @09:38AM (#9420286)

The article should be named' Why Blue-Collar Workers Are Being Hammered'.

The matter of the fact is that in most blue-collar jobs, salaries stagnate after years of experience.

Having an education only do 2 things:

- Gives one the ability for a white-collar job

- With the same stagnation, blue-collar salaries become 'higher' and most workers are complacent about it

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Re:Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Ham... by genericresponse on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:26AM (#9420626)

It's the same for the bulk of white collar workers as well in most industries, they just stagnate later.

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Re:Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Ham... by dataker on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:10PM (#9422807)

White collars have always had better salary growth than others.

Generally, blue-collars rely largely on 'manual labor' and, therefore, after its peak productivity, they hit a depreciative tendency(younger employees/outsourcing/...) .

White collars rely largely on networking and influence, hence its 'productivity' continues to grow.

The more 'manual work' one performs, the smaller his salary growth is.

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Re:Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Ham... by peterfirefly on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @11:19AM (#9421043)

I think that was what dataker meant (but I'm not quite sure):

> - With the same stagnation, blue-collar salaries become 'higher' and most workers are complacent about it

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