[TowerTalk] AES SK

[Matt Lovewell]

Those unions "protected" themselves right to the unemployment line.

> On Jul 7, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu,7/7/2016 12:31 PM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
>> Out of the *93.8 million* Americans age 16 and up who are deemed "not in
>> the labor force," 9.7 million of them are between 16 and 19 years of age.
>> Another 5.7 million are between 20 and 24. And 37.8 million are age 65 and
>> over. (In fact, 17.5 million are over 75 years old.)
> 
> And don't forget the women that choose to be stay-at-home moms.
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> While many jobs have been moved to low wage countries, this is NOT new -- during the middle of the last century, lots of good paying union jobs moved to low-wage parts of the US, and without the protection of unions. A huge part of the problem of unemployment in the developed world is the automation of work that used to be done by well-paid human labor. Hundreds of employees replaced by a few robots, machines that do the work tens of times faster than a human.
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> Many (most?) of the people who did those jobs for the first 20-40 years of their working lifetime have little if any education for today's jobs operating, building, and maintaining that equipment. At 74, I've been retired for about 7 years. My wife, 72, retired three years ago, primarily because of hand surgery. We've talked about working today, and agree that we would have a hard time getting hired at any decent job in today's world, not because the jobs aren't there, but because our fields have moved on, and we haven't. I have a BSEE, she's a PhD.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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