Why bad jobs are the root of America’s problems: Social, political and cultural crises have been exa

The immigration crisis is making everything worse.
Of course, they'll breed like cockroaches regardless.
Welcome to the Biden Administration.

 

Dehumanizing immigrants ("breed" and "cockroaches"). Good thing that framing human beings as animals never has a downside.

 

Pretty revolting rhetoric but we've seen this before.

 

Yep. History definitely rhymes. Know nothings said the same thing about the Irish and German Catholics. The Second Klan folks said the same thing about the Italians and Jewish immigrants.

 

Maybe I’m not understanding the nuance, but in a time with low employment and people almost naming their price for work the ‘low paying job’ doesn’t seem to be the root of Americas problems.

 

My pet economic theory of how we should agree that working at a sandwich shop is the same thing as working on an assembly line at a factory in the 50s, because it is basically a factory for sandwiches is vindicated

 

Employee power was short lived, the pendulum has started to swing back. But even when they had it, even a 33 percent raise from 15 to 20 an hour you’re still not close to a living wage in a lot of places. And any gains have largely been eaten up by inflation.

but it’s actually a 40 or 50 year trend that has caused the problem.

 

I dont think this was a well written article. First a I fully disagree with the premise that an educated public is a liability and not an asset. The article goes so far as to call advanced degrees "credential inflation" just to denigrate the pursuit. He bounces around from disconnected point to disconnected point without ever addressing the jobs to labor problem we have in America even in highly trained computer programmers, doctors, and pilots.

He also leaves out the US productivity level is number 6 in the world suggesting our structure is much more optimal than other places and he does not compare the fertility rate to other coutries and their education levels. In fact he uses almost no studies, statistics or anything to tie together over education being a problem in America. It loosely ties birthrates declining to people waiting longer to start families because they are too busy achieving advanced degrees.... but that isnt supported by the data below.

He didnt even offer how birth rates by education levels have changed over time or not. As you can see they dont change with education level once you get to college educated. ITs not like Masters and Doctors are kicking out less kids.

I really didnt like it if you cant tell.

 

Reminds me of a cartoon from around 100 years ago depicting Italian immigrants as rats.

 

Haven't read it all but this was interesting. I always understood there to be an inverse correlation between higher levels of income/education and birth rates. Meaning, I guess, that I figured women/couples with higher incomes (who were the most able to afford kids) were having the fewest kids.