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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Paul I have two outlooks;
AC Webconnecting Holding, my ''employer'' is a small multi-national corporation that derives its income from a global market -- we have no shortage of people to sell.
I have a local interest, being a US Citizen, living in Michigan, watching the downwardly mobile lose their old industrial economy blue-collar jobs, as the disruptive past 40 years played out. Many were able to adapt and prosper, and some just did not have the ability, or did not make the effort, to transcend to the new environment.
They had little education and no real vocational training. These were the less intelligent or the lazy. They became the downardly mobile. We cannot eat them so we are stuck with keeping them. If you are flipping burgers or stocking shelves because your industrial low-skilled job was offshored I really have no pity for you -- you just didn't have it to adapt and bootstrap yourself up. As an example: GM had a training program to teach displaced assembly-line workers new vocational skills -- most assigned to these programs, that were partially federally funded retraining programs, did not succeed -- to this day the jobs are hard to fill; mechanics, automotive technicians, electricians, other skilled trades.
For those you that exited high school in the late 80s and 90s -- you should have seen that the livelihoods of your parents, in most cases, would never be yours and looked for vocational training in information economy skills or furthered your schooling to marketable degrees; computer sciences, medical fields, engineering -- jobs with a future. These are the jobs that pay $50K to $170K (or more) today. And these are my customers -- they are making money in this economy you are suffering in, life was like this 50 years ago also but not so divided. Believe it or not, being a marginally employed worker sucked 50 years ago too.
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So in the last 50 years there has been no change in the West's wealth, it's living standards, income etc.
Think back 20 years and then project it forward 20 years.
And the EU isn't doing so great.
I don't do anectdotal evidence.
