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Any kid can walk into an IBEW hall and say, “I got C’s in school, and did OK in math. Never been arrested, would rather work with my hands, and don’t want to go to college.”

They will give him an application, help him fill it out, and they will get a phone call within 3 months. I can give you a list of unions that will do that.

And yes, add to that public employee unions to that list.

The trade unions are awesome. Period. I can provide you with human being evidence of people who in some cases where heroin addicted basket cases that are clean and making $75K.

The major technology companies? Contributed zero. Guilty of generational theft.

[Hostage]

The tech companies early on had small margins and were mostly unprofitable. This forced them to seek tech workers outside the US. There were plenty of domestic tech workers but their wage levels were too high to allow tech companies to be profitable.

Part of the problem stemmed from Deming training the Japanese. And in turn, Deming trained the Japanese because American corporations and unions were effing stupid with a capital F in the 1960s, they were complacent, too cozy with their status quo. They needed their *sses kicked and the quality produced by the Japanese under Deming did just that.

See a humorous but very true film that explains all this dynamic:

GUNG HO!