Not everyone can handle college.
Most people on FR are fairly intelligent, but I’m telling you, there are millions who (even through no fault of their own, we’ve always been a certain number of lower IQ people since history began) cannot get through college.
And most stupid people are willing to work, even as a skilled laborer. If there are no jobs... well stupid people like to eat too.
It’s in society’s best interest to get those industrial jobs back here.
You put it better than I was about to.
Where are you going to fine those ‘spare people’? There aren’t any.
Don’t you get it? The Free Trade people like to blame the unemployed while driving to see their bankers.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. A few modest proposals to help get industrial jobs back: Reduce or eliminate the minimum wage; reduce or eliminate the corporate income tax; reduce the 60 or so federal safety net programs that incentivize idleness; and no more free trade pacts with developing, low wage countries and a scale back of the existing ones where we can.
Honey, I have known lots of stupid people who have graduated college, and the curricula that many are subjected to in colleges today leave them with little knowledge of history or of writing skills.
Bugs the heck out of me to see an elitist attitude about who is and who is not college material.
Students can be divided based on their abilities and preferences at a relatively young age. Their curricula can then be tailored to their test results. At one point in our history, this was a practice in education.
But, somehow, vocational schools came to be viewed as inferior to college prep. Manual labor and the trades came to be looked down upon.
What we are now stuck with is a glut of degree holders who have no common sense or problem-solving skills and who don’t know how to do much of anything unless it involves phone apps of some sort.
I believe it is worse than that, automation is eliminating more factory jobs, even in China compared to offshoring. And I’m an IT guy but I still worry that we are automating too much. Not everyone can be an engineer or.doctor, but they should have meaningful jobs too