NP - The Myth of a Jobless Recovery
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 13:15:22 CST 2013
And, the college kids with big loand bills who occupy, allying
themselves with entrenched establishment labor and the violence
enthusiasts and lunitics have to real gripe. Itz not like they are
looking for work; they are looking for a good job. Well, those are not
easy to come by just now. Sorry, bad timeing and luck happens.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:11 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Other economists--and maybe these guys in other work?---are showing how
>> capital has moved more and more to business owners in the last decades in
>> the US, partly due to capital investments outside of workers that increase
>> productivity.
>
> Not an easy problem to deal with; part of the solution must be to
> educate and improve the skill of workers, so that human capital, where
> the US has intensity and comparative advantage, can tilt back to the
> workers. We can not go back to producing the goods we once produced
> here with workers, products now made elsewhere by workers, or here or
> somewhere with robots. A big challange is what to do about white men.
> Another big one is what to do with new, uneducated and skilled labor.
> Women are doing great. There is growth in the areas they dominate and
> continue to build into through education and so on. But the white men
> who once built houses and the like, the trades and so on, these guys
> have a legitimate reason to occupy...well...not Wall Street, but ....I
> don't know...um....the zone.
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