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The 'get more skills' dogmatists are a real obtuse bunch.
What is amazing is just how offensive the concept of getting a job actually is to some people. Imagine actually having to work for something. Oh the humanity!
If they are building up the whole area the older projects are history anyway. You can't keep things they way they are forever. The only thing you can count on is that large scale public housing will never trump property value and improvement. I'm very liberal and even I'm ok with that. I'm sure someone is already thinking about where they want to relocate everyone.
I don't have one and I don't claim to have one. That's my point. I'm not going to sit on here and give ridiculously simple solutions to systemic, complex problems.
There are people with college degrees who are unemployed and /or severely underemployed. And yet when discussions come up about inner-city ghetto and project inhabitants and their problems or people on welfare (And there are plenty of destitute white areas also) there are always a chorus of people shouting, "Just get more skills, get a better job." OR, "Just get a job."
If not everyone with a bachelors degree can find gainful employment than how do you expect inner-city people or people who come from generations of poverty in the sticks to suddenly pull themselves up by the bootstraps and find a job that would allow them to be self sufficient?
Getting "skills" is not cheap. And I know people with skills who have been in and out of work for long stretches the last few years. To add more people to their unions (electrical and plumbing) would not benefit them or the people being added. There's only so much work to be done.
If you want to look for solutions than look at something like "Zeitgeist" or something similar.
The point is there are only so many jobs and services needed to be done. Everything after that is surplus. It's not needed. Even Major League Baseball has a maximum amount of baseballs they use each year. It's a whole lot of balls but it's a finite number. There is a limit.
What is amazing is just how offensive the concept of getting a job actually is to some people. Imagine actually having to work for something. Oh the humanity!
It depends on what the job is , and how much it pays.
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