Posted on 12/03/2010 7:58:29 AM PST by SC_Pete
I'd settle for retraining as a comedian.
She seems to have totally forgotten her only marketable skill...
At a fraction of the cost; no bureaucracy necessary.
For sure. But she hasn’t been funny for some time now.
Bull. Those hiring are looking at very narrow requirements.
Yes, only trial and error at the street level — which is what entrepreneurialism is all about — can find the new demands and, by figuring out how to meet them, build the new economic infrastructure.
But government has to get out of the way! Think of how during the Depression people were able to decide, okay, let’s make mom’s fudge in the kitchen, package it and sell it on street corners — leading to some of the global candy corporations still profitable today.
I’m not saying we need to go back to unregulated food sales, but please, we all know that it’s almost impossible to start a business today without all kinds of obstacles.
Many, many jobs in the old economy are simply going away and won’t be back. Now, with technology, a couple can run a fairly large and complicated business with very few employees. Moreover, most business services are now do-it-yourself — for example, I had a tile guy come out and do a bid for a job. He took his own calls and made his own schedules (no scheduler). He brought a laptop with maps on it (no maps needed to be printed or bought). He wrote up a bid on the spot and printed it off on printer paper (no special invoices or letterhead had to be printed and shipped, no triplicates, etc.) He had a question about a product; he looked it up right then and we discussed it (time saving and no need to drive to the store to review the product in person and then get back to me).
This is just a simple example of how so many jobs are now being handled by one worker. So we need new types of jobs to be created. These can only come from finding new demands, new niches, and no amount of central planning can ferret that out.
If the government weren’t such a suffocating behemoth, people could naturally find and create NEW demands and then figure out ways to meet them.
I personally know that the education market, for example, is bursting with demands for NEW types of schools and homeschool enrichment programs. But getting going in attempts to figure out how to meet these demans, AND deal with the government bureaucracy (not only as to businesses, but, Good Lord, as to schools) is very much hindered.
Offshoring is a factor for companies that can afford to go overseas. From here on out, we will ALL be competing globablly for jobs in these larger corporations that can gravitate to growth. Again, this is why we must free up the power of small business! Even small business may buy products and services overseas (by the internet), but they will tend to have their employees onshore.
Your post made my day. Wow, what you did was so thoughtful and I’m sure it was helpful. Work is an honorable thing and I hope we don’t lose the insight that work is only something we’re paid for.
Thank you for the encouragement.
Yes, I agree. But i would not want to see us go the way of Erope that accepts an ongoing unemployment rate of 10%—just so they can have goodies from the government.
Exactly. In that case, unemployment is just another name for welfare.
Even in the present political debate, it’s so stupid that the Rats are talking about ending unemployment benefits equals abject poverty and cancelling Christmas.
Please. If people really have no money for food without their “unemployment benefits,” then let them apply for welfare. Eh? If they’re not eligible for welfare, and apparently most on unemployment benefits aren’t, then how can you argue they’re going to starve.
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