[moshun]

Couldn’t be massive cost-cutting efforts in corporations preparing for a future with a skeleton crew of humans maintaining an ocean of thinking machines, could it? Add in an impending recession (or depression if you like), and you’ve got a recipe not to hire many inexperienced workers no matter what their educational background.

I’m old enough to remember the same type of argument playing out when corporate executives sent US jobs overseas in the 80s and blamed the workers then too.

[musicale]

"Here at Craptech we are facing a huge labor shortage of highly skilled workers that we can hire for the very low wages and nearly nonexistent benefits that we are offering. The situation is so desperate that we are considering doing anything in our power that does not involve increasing wages or benefits, or any kind of employee training."