Okay then pay them a livable wage, and then they will be successful. Fucking billionaires need to put their money where their mouth is. A bunch of asshats
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They do get paid well...
For example, Lutnick claimed that technician jobs are promising gigs with a low barrier to entry, that can pay anywhere between $70,000 to $90,000 at the onset—no college degree required.
The issue is the quantity of these jobs, not the quality.
And once you're in, you're in...
And not in a good way, you'll get used to that 70k lifestyle in a year or two, but if you lose your job for any reason, there's insane competition for the few spots you're qualified for. And anything outside of this, you'll never make that match.
They'll pay a little more to a very small amount of employees if it creates a captive and trained workforce.
So, you're right that "corporations are bad" you just don't under the long game and the corporations do.
I mean those are technicians, not factory workers. For those see: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes519199.htm
140k is now the poverty line. 70k ain’t cutting it for a family of 4. Those aren’t “great” jobs
OK then make traditional factory jobs pay well enough to own a house and see your children through college again.
A factory worker makes less today than they did in the 50's!!! Because the 1% has managed to grab all the money in their infinite greed. The money grab of the rich is the biggest heist in the history of mankind.
Also not every billionaire needs to flaunt with how enormously ignorant they are on basic issues of society.
The rich need to be taxed on their fortune. Nobody needs to be as rich as the 1%.
Gonna start paying factory workers six figures are you? If not piss off!
True, I suppose, but factory jobs? I thought those dried up when we gave China all our manufacturing.
Yeah he's not wrong, but US manufacturing is a shadow of its former self.
Trades like plumbing, electrical, and HVAC still have plenty of demand though.
Fuck Jensen Huang in the ass with a cactus, sideways.
I've worked in more than one manufacturing plant and it's miserable even on the IT side; and that's with air conditioning.
You first.
No problem, just make a single income from one partner working a factory job enough money to live a comfortable middle class life again.
Jobs a good'un
Your wish is granted. Now your phone costs double what it used to
That's fine, because I'll be making enough to afford it... as the outlined condition was a factory job that would pay well enough to afford a family home on that income alone.
All he really means is people should learn to accept sub minimum wage and be happy they have a shitty job.
Looking at Nvidia…. Of over 1,000 job openings USA, only one matches keyboard “technician”. It’s a marketing job requiring a bachelors degree and three years experience
I also see a section of their website on campus recruiting and globally there are college internships.
This might be a good place for the NVidia CEO to start looking.
Cool, you first bro.
With poor labor protections and shitty health care, factory jobs aren't what they were 50 years ago. It's a work-until-you-die career.
UBI really needed to happen before AI and advanced robots. Really interested to see how China handles this.
Trades too.
I hate this line of thinking, because everyone should be able to get as much education as possible. It's a net benefit to society. If someone wants to get a PhD and then go work in a factory it should be a valid career path, not one which requires them to gamble on an academic career in order to justify the extra education.
Kind of the whole point of the "Dirty Jobs" show.
Two kinds of jobs:
One, where you need a shower before you go to work.
Two, where you need a shower when you get home from work.
We value One and devalue Two. NGL, I've done both, I don't know, physically, that I could go back to Two.
Bonus, Three, can't remember the last time you showered because you work from home. LOL.
People need to find living wages in traditional factory jobs again first
That being said, as someone who works in manufacturing as a professional, it can be decent work if you're either an educated professional or unionized (ideally as a tradesperson)