Re: Interconnectedness of Employment Markets (was Bankruptcy

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On 4/03/06, Mr. Blue wrote:
> On 4/02/06, L wrote:
>More broadly, in general we're
> witnessing what amounts to an education arms race and the result will be
> college-educated unemployed and underemployed. The people who might have previously
> happily earned middle class incomes working construction and meat-packing are now
> flooding into the universities. Contrary to the opiate the politicians and the media
> are trying to sell to us, education is not a substitute for sound economic policy.
>
This is not a mere U.S. problem. This is a global problem. Everywhere, in Europe,
Asia, etc., you see highly-educated people unable to find jobs because 1) routine
white collar work have been automated 2) even advanced work is outsourced to lower-
wage countries 3) there's an oversupply of educated people and not enough jobs to
absorb all of them.

Some go into small businesses themselves; some never find any jobs; some work in jobs
that don't require any formal education. some marry rich.

You talk exactly like Karl Marx. I thought you were a capitalist azzzholle. This is
the hypocrisy of the educated people. When they saw blue collar jobs getting
automated, outsourced, etc., they didn't care because they were white collar works and
the trends didn't affect them personally. Now that they see their own jobs getting
outsourced, etc., they cry foul.

I mentioned teaching before. why don't you consider that? do you know that in most
countries, even advanced countries in Europe and Asia, you have to be in the top 1% of
college grads to get a teaching job? You see, Americans are fuuuqqqing dumbbells.
Complain as they do, most American lawyers couldn't even obtain middle school teaching
jobs if they were to live in Finland, Japan, whatever.