320 Years of History
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It seems almost daily that folks decry that their jobs have been "exported" to other countries. Hello!
- What part of the globalized economy did they not see coming over the past half century? What part of the basic laws of supply and demand did they think weren't "on point?"
- What part of "profit motive" is so lost on them that they don't understand why a company would opt to use less dear labor provided in other countries?
- What about there being 1.7 billion people who speak Mandarin and 1.1 billion who speak Hindi suggests to them that speaking only English will be sufficient going forward?
- What about waking to see the dawn of the information age suggests that tangible production of goods is where most U.S. jobs will exist in the future?
- What about the advances in miniaturization and robotics makes folks think that their rote-work job won't soon be done by a machine?
In my mind, if one can't "see the writing on the wall," "writing" that isn't remotely speculative but that is instead as sure as the day is long, one deserves to find oneself in the position of bemoaning the stuff folks are "on about" these days re: jobs being exported or performed by machines. Frankly, I'm just sick and tired of all the whiners, and the politicians who pander to them. Get over it. Time are changing and you need to change with them. Period.
Hello OP,
First I would like to ask who are those "folks" you are taking as reference? I would like a concrete answer to begin this discussion, not just a generalized aggroupation such as you have already done (whiners, politicians, etc). Do you have actual names and authentic profiles?
It seems to me you are just being swayed by a trend of expressionism, which relates more to psychology than with the functioning economy (therefore possibly making your rhetorical bullet points a sidetrack to the situation in question - I was very confused by your wording and organization of them too).
If you could first enumerate how many people you personally know with the given political stance you are sharing and then briefly describe their professional histories to assure me you are not simply attempting to analyse popular expressionism, I believe I could better take into account the totality of your post.
If perhaps it may happen that indeed you are interested in understanding the situation as psychological phenonema, then I would be no less interested in engaging in a possible explanation.
In any case, I need your claim to be better presented so that my answer can actually be relevant and understood according to your request with the initiation of the thread.
All those questions are largely rhetorical. I'm not seeking specific answers to any of them. I'm saying that if one fails to recognize and adjust oneself to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the realities noted in my questions, one has no legitimate right to complain about the job market. The OP rebukes the people who see fit to complain about not being able to find a job but who simultaneously do little to nothing to adapt themselves to qualify for the jobs that are now available and in demand.
The "folks" then are people who want is clearly gone -- rote manufacturing jobs -- to come back, in spite of all indications being that there's little indicating a reason why companies would "repatriate" those production operations to the U.S. If one wants work in a textile factory, fine, but go to where it makes sense for textile producers/assemblers to have factories; don't sit in the U.S. bemoaning the fact that those factories are in Mexico or China, or wherever and pining for them to come back.