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Solid Sonic posted...

helIy posted...

it's honestly not hard to find a job if you actually go looking for one that isn't a typical "office" job or a stocker/cashier at a store.

manufacturing places are looking for workers ALL the time, and they're usually pretty lax on the requirements because of that.

but no, everyone these days wants to be pewdiepie. sit at home, play games, and get paid for it.

that's not how it works.

As I see it the labor market is only really "working" if the ratio of available jobs matches the demographics of the people looking for them.

Not EVERYONE'S going to find a job in their field, I get that, but the proportion of people looking for work in a certain field should be reflective of the jobs available in that area.

Padding job numbers with low-paying, non-skilled work in a market that's pining for 8-5 salary positions doesn't really correct the problem. That doesn't create the strength the economy deserves to have when there's skilled labor looking for jobs that use those talents.

While I find merit in your argument, the fact that people are able to do something else but unwilling to do so isn't a fault of the market. The jobs are still there and being left undone, which makes it a somewhat artificial scarcity. Granted, SOME of the problem is employer-side as well where they're trying to underpay talent or expecting too much for their compensation rates.

In general, that's the problem with all of these silly universal college ideas. As it is, we don't necessarily have enough jobs to support every major. And, as a more general rule, if you're training 100 people to be president but only 1 person can be president at a time and serves 4 years, whose fault is it really? The market for not having enough presidents or people for not trying to meet existing needs and demanding that things change to suit them? The reality is that societies function best when they're based on need rather than trying to artificially create a society where nobody does essential tasks because everybody wants to pursue hobbies.

EDIT: Additional caveat, the biggest thing that we're failing to do as a system is create entrepreneurs which would help to address some of these problems. Most of our schools encourage a hive-mind rather than individualism and free thought.
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