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US PoliERA 2018 |OT6| An Unmitigated Disaster
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Most educational debt is public, and people with advanced degrees are drowning in debt everywhere. It's creating a negative feedback loop that will lead to an increasingly less skilled workforce.
I dislike that I can now instantly tell when something is a far right shit stain because they have the word "Freedom" in the title.
These things can be true, but none of this really applies to the situation. Like, I think you missed the whole "permanent vacancy because there will never be as many employees as there are employers who want them" It's an unsolvable problem. Helping a small minority of people go to school again slightly helps with it, but its a drop of water in an ocean. And that unsolvable problem is at the core of why incomes are polarizing- the lower and upper middle class are growing while the actual middle class is shrinking.
Now these critters come out the wood work to talk shyte after he's already resigned.
BLS spooked when Trump releases numbers before official report https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/trumps-tweet-jobs-report
Can all of this happening really be traced to Reagan being a dick, and Carter being a terrible president, or was this always going to happen?
tbf, Curbelo called for Pruitt's resignation months ago
No, this was always going to happen. Same with globalization/loss of union power/etc. They just helped exacerbate the problem. (busting unions was good for the GOP politically)
Since he did this today with Pruitt, maybe Kelly/others will also be leaving today. Better to do them all in one day.
The job market is becoming more and more bifurcated and college is failing to properly prepare students for the level of specialization/expertise that companies are demanding (fairly or not). One thing that corporate America never realized was that unions helped to create and foster long-term employees because there was a level of trust and benefits associated with that commitment. Now employee and employer alike see each other as disposable, so employers want someone who can do the job on day 1 in case the employee decides to leave in a few years; why bother training someone for the next company they're going to work at?
So, what solutions are there to ease the growing pains, in order from least pragmatic to most pragmatic?
Upskilling the workforce is not an unsolvable problem. All it requires is a much more robust publicly subsidized post-secondary education system for people of all ages, not just the young. The amount of wasted human potential out there is staggering.
WSJ article on Job-Hoppers from yesterday w/ a more positive spin on the CNBC stuff- https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-this-economy-quitters-are-winning-1530702001
edit: *Someone with red hair who's not the Stripe CEO* had a tweet related to that a day or two back- (paraphrasing) the true benefit to being in SV isn't the manual/tech skills, it's experience. It allows a startup access to poach a person who's actually managed a product launch at google similar to what you want to be setting up from scratch.
Yes it is.There is absolutely a bunch of wasted potential, but even if you can harness that, you can't turn everyone into a rocket scientist or a lawyer or an accountant, etc.
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"OK so I sprayed burning feces onto the orphans and then I punched all the babies, but if you want me to not do it again you have to say that spraying orphans with feces and punching babies is cool and you have to buy me dinner or I will do it all again."
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, you fucking rank corrupt piece of shit, Scott Pruitt.
This is #4 of non mutual exits by my count. Price, Shulkin, Tillerson, and now Pruitt.
I think Curbelo actually was one of like 5 Republicans to call out Pruitt before.
I did but I actually just looked it up and I mixed up two different redhead guys, will edit the first one.
So the Oklahoma fossil fuel industry is still in charge of the EPA, wonderful...
Medicaid expansion has qualified for the ballot this Nov in Nebraska.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nebraska-medicaid-ballot-initiative_us_5b3e1abfe4b05127ccefa087
Idaho and Utah will also vote on the policy this fall.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nebraska-medicaid-ballot-initiative_us_5b3e1abfe4b05127ccefa087
Idaho and Utah will also vote on the policy this fall.
Did... Gretchen just take responsibility for starting metoo here?
"Joke" about being a white supremacist to own the libs.*
*while actually being a white supremacist
I think this dude should just really tell us how he feels. I bet he's dying to say he supports some of Trump's policies.
Well, can we *really* say that her lawsuits didn't have a big impact? I don't know if it was The Thing that started #metoo or not, but it was certainly big news.
He's a white guy who worked at Blizzard's Cali campus for years and years. Bannon and Miller? Also white dudes from Cali talking about "Middle America." Who demonized "elites" while working at Goldman Sachs. Just like this guy demonizes "tech fetishization" while being a goddamn game dev.
Exactly. They could raise requirements when unemployment was high because they could get hundreds of choices and be super picky.
Not so much anymore but they haven't woken up and realized that yet, so instead they're busy raiding from the competition.
I must have missed Trump's positive, welcoming vision for America. Whoever this is they're nauseatingly naive.
I'm more annoyed of his patronizing tone. You should be reflecting on what a goddamn mistake you have made by voting for the wrinkled tangerine, not tut-tutting the opposition for simply getting mad. That is, if you're a decent person.
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The games industry is a mistake (and I'm only saying this half-jokingly).
One of my personal highlights of BlizzCon last year was hearing some devs talk shit about Mark Kern at a party.
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No. One can definitely point out that allegations against Harvey Weinstein is what got the ball rolling.
That explains it, he's simply talking about ethics in politics. Why are you mad that corruption is out of control? Don't you love America?
So Wheeler has the same ideology as Pruitt, but is it just me, or does he have the same face too?
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