Mr Khan said:
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. |
As it is now, you have the reverse, you have people with college degrees working jobs that teenagers used to do. Unemployment rate for teens is like over 80% because college graduates, seniors, and displaced professionals are working the jobs teens used to do. I actually know one former casino executive who sat on boards who is doing tech phone support currently out in Las Vegas.