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by averagewall 3063 days ago
How is more skilled jobs a plus? Doesn't the US have an excess of skilled job vacancies and and excess of unskilled people? I would think more unskilled jobs would balance the market out better.

Of course any kind of job is also a cost to the company running the plant, which means more of an obstacle to the adoption of more nuclear power. If we could do it without any jobs, I'm sure it'd be much cheaper and more prevalent!
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Density 3063 days ago
The US has a massive shortage of non computing related technical jobs:

https://nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-in...

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ajuc 3063 days ago
You can always educate more people. Not only helping the economy, and the people, but also getting side benefits like more informed society that makes better decisions in elections.

> Doesn't the US have an excess of skilled job vacancies and and excess of unskilled people?

Yeah, mostly because of its obsolete education system.

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