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Reply #5: I believe that argument is BULLSHIT. What exactly are 'the right skills for a modern economy'? [View All]

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Vincardog

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Tue Jul-12-11 03:41 PM
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5. I believe that argument is BULLSHIT. What exactly are 'the right skills for a modern economy'?

Please name the high paying jobs that are failing to be filled do to lack of American skilled workers.

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-How can we tackle the unemployment issue if we don't want to deal with it's vicious circles?	ck4829	Jul-12-11 03:09 PM	#0
- No one cares about the unemployed.	Dulcinea	Jul-12-11 03:14 PM	#1
- Why is there no will to do anything about it? Because dealing with unemployment would mean dealing	Vincardog	Jul-12-11 03:22 PM	#2
- The structural problem is our educational system	hack89	Jul-12-11 03:28 PM	#4
- I believe that argument is BULLSHIT. What exactly are 'the right skills for a modern economy'?	Vincardog	Jul-12-11 03:41 PM	#5
- High paying jobs are being filled - that's the point	hack89	Jul-12-11 04:56 PM	#7
- Not necessarily. I have an advanced degree, and have not had steady work	Kat45	Jul-12-11 05:52 PM	#10
- Education is not a silver bullet	hack89	Jul-13-11 10:42 AM	#13
- I have an AA ABS and a MS Please list the high paying jobs that a HS diploma will help me get, or	Vincardog	Jul-12-11 08:33 PM	#11
- Did you even bother to read my post?	hack89	Jul-12-11 09:22 PM	#12
- PLease list the high skill high wage jobs that are going unfilled or QUIT with the RW points	Vincardog	Jul-13-11 12:04 PM	#14
- They are not going unfilled. Are you dense? nt	hack89	Jul-13-11 01:42 PM	#16
- Changing skill sets is another huge issue	hack89	Jul-12-11 03:25 PM	#3
- Heads up: The economy is going to crash	simonmagnus	Jul-12-11 03:56 PM	#6
- The abundance created by technology has been siphoned away to a cabal of rich people	Taitertots	Jul-12-11 05:07 PM	#8
- When jobs are easily available, we don't have these problems	Hydra	Jul-12-11 05:17 PM	#9
- The viscious cycles are endemic to Capitalism.	blindpig	Jul-13-11 12:56 PM	#15
- What other system can you show that has no such cycles? nt	hack89	Jul-13-11 03:04 PM	#18
- Socialism.	blindpig	Jul-13-11 03:26 PM	#19
- What would drive innovation and growth in such a system? nt	hack89	Jul-13-11 04:03 PM	#20
- Human necessity. n/t	blindpig	Jul-15-11 07:57 AM	#22
- So an individual would recognize a need	hack89	Jul-15-11 09:39 AM	#23
- Why all of that rigamarole?	blindpig	Jul-15-11 10:45 AM	#24
- So who determines what society needs?	hack89	Jul-15-11 11:02 AM	#25
- Resource based economy	simonmagnus	Jul-15-11 04:39 PM	#27
- Good luck with that - you'll need it. nt	hack89	Jul-16-11 07:36 AM	#28
- I have a 3-D printer, and a laser cutter and plasma cutter and CNC mills and lathes.	NYC_SKP	Jul-16-11 10:04 AM	#29
- What I can't understand is how we should "trust the economy"	kick-ass-bob	Jul-13-11 01:47 PM	#17
- But the government doesn't have the skills or the knowledge	hack89	Jul-14-11 07:34 AM	#21
- ITS.	WinkyDink	Jul-15-11 11:02 AM	#26

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