You cannot effectively make someone with a few years of genuine apprenticeship under a mechanic (for example) take $8/hour to do a miserable job. Yet nobody suggests that we make sure young people have an option like that; we inundate them with busywork that actively prevents it
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3 hypotheses to explain this: 1. worker advocacy groups often are more concerned with their existing constituents (i.e. people who are already members of a union) than with the broader class of people who sell labor for money
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2. the kind of people who lead worker advocacy orgs are too conflict-theory-oriented to seriously consider that there’s a way to achieve their goals which doesn’t involve getting more concessions from employers
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The fact that I went through 16 years of school and I learned zero skills if I needed to be self-sufficient is crazy to me. Why wouldn't we teach everyone the basics of how civilization works. Plumbing farming gardening electricity construction, mechanics, etc
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That’s the 2 trillion dollar question.
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Half the population would be best off going straight to trade school after elementary
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I assume you exclude yourself from that particular half of the population?
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Although Kanban and JIT will be under a microscope when our current fiasco ends. Kanban-not enough skills/decisions by worker JIT-we can't build a $15k machine today if we don't have the $.70 part made 10,000 miles away in our hands in the 2 hours.
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My Minnesota high school required one industrial technology class so I have 3 months of welding training. A friend of mine used his welding knowledge during his PhD physics program to build custom tools.
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