I've been saying this for 30years...Destiny's account is now due and the worthless masses ain't gonna like the outcome of what they themselves contributed to, and to a painful end mainly due to the loss of comfort that they took for granted was owed to them by everybody but them themselves...one cold January night and snug under the covers of a comfortable warm bed...a February blizzard and your "snug as a bug in a carpet", your warm and comfortable and eyes are heavy...a couple hours later and temperature inside your cozy comfortable home have dropped because your furnace quit working, it's getting colder by the minute and the 24hrx7 emergency service is unable to respond due to the lack of qualified and competent service technicians but you will be placed on the list and possibly get your furnace repaired before summer...this is just one simple scenario, there's plenty more, today one would be hard pressed to find anyone under 45 years of age capable of using a manual can opener...the West is fucked.
[ - ] prototype 1 point 5 monthsJan 9, 2025 07:15:41 ago (+1/-0)
When most programs cost money even for manual skills, and many manual professions now require certification, and you have a hundred million foreign aliens in your nation, when most of the public has less than $500 in savings and is living paycheck to paycheck, you end up with an entire generation not going into the trades as a result.
The legalisms, cheap labor, the bureaucracy, the public unions, the redtape, mean there are very few journeymen anymore, very few companies willing to invest or run training programs anymore.
They all want reduced liability by requiring expensive certifications, and preferably they want some other company to have already trained their employees before acquiring skilled people.
It's insurance, cheap labor, and regulations that are the problem.
[ + ] Zyklonbeekeeper
[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 3 points 5 monthsJan 9, 2025 07:05:37 ago (+3/-0)
[ + ] prototype
[ - ] prototype 1 point 5 monthsJan 9, 2025 07:15:41 ago (+1/-0)
The legalisms, cheap labor, the bureaucracy, the public unions, the redtape, mean there are very few journeymen anymore, very few companies willing to invest or run training programs anymore.
They all want reduced liability by requiring expensive certifications, and preferably they want some other company to have already trained their employees before acquiring skilled people.
It's insurance, cheap labor, and regulations that are the problem.
[ + ] glooper
[ - ] glooper 0 points 5 monthsJan 9, 2025 10:21:29 ago (+0/-0)
And those countries are slipping fast.