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Mr Khan said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Mr Khan said:

You never watched that one episode of The Simpsons about what happens in unlicensed cabs, did you? Granted, they were in Rio de Janeiro at the time, but still... licensing and regulations exist for good reasons just as often (or moreso) than they exist for poor ones.


That's all you got out of my post?

Licenses exist because taxi companies benefit massively from them. You know how much it costs to legally drive a cab in New York? About a million dollars. Who are the only people who can afford that? The big taxi companies.

Guess who the number one lobbyists are for taxi regulations and medallions? Taxi companies.

No, but your larger points have other issues, including the catch-22 of qualified, out of work individuals (like myself). Employers don't hire us for low-end jobs, because they know as well as we do that we'll hop as soon as a real opportunity comes by, and then they don't waste training on us. In a free market society, this problem would grow rather than shrink, as you'd have such out-of-work individuals hedged out by teenagers or underqualified immigrants or something.

The Free Market is a model like every other economic model, and like every other economic model, is flawed.


Not if you look at the actual labor statistics.

Actuall you tend to find the exact opposite problem.

College Graduate unemployment is actually EXTREMLY low despite the level of people working in their fields being low... and most of them working very low end jobs.  The unemployment rate is over twice as high for people with a highschool education.  College degree unemployment is only 3.9%... and that's including people who only accept jobs in their field and can afford to, and people like richard who theoretically have outdated skill sets despite booms in their industries.  (IT is huge in need right now.)

Essentially meaning that at the moment you need to pay tens of thousnads of dollars just to get jobs that pay like 20 thousand dollars in a lot of areas.

Don't know what's going on specifically in your case.  Could just be your aganst OTHER college grads.  Or your just botching the interviews.  I know i lost a lot of jobs just because i don't really have a tolerance for the way you have to go through job interviews with the usual required lying and selective truth telling to get a job.  Usually saying things right out.