Posted on 01/20/2023 8:55:33 PM PST by ChipMarne
A college professor believes that he has a solution to put men without college degrees back to work in blue-collar jobs – particularly those who “feel out-of-place in the modern service economy.”
Professor Bryan Caplan, a George Mason University economist, wants to see a deregulation of the building and construction industry, which he argues will boost job opportunities for men without college degrees without requiring massive government subsidies.
He laid out his ideas in a Substack article and provided further commentary to The College Fix via email. Caplan regularly writes and talks on the problems in the housing industry and how deregulation would help Americans.
“What makes me so sure that housing deregulation would be great for non-college males?” Caplan wrote. “Because non-college males build almost all our housing! Over 80% of all construction jobs are non-college already – and almost 90% are male,” he said, citing statistics from the Department of Labor.
“And what becomes of all the illegal aliens who’ve been working in the construction trades for decades and kept wages lower?”
They become licensed contractors.
The existing licensed contractors can get a tent and join their former workers that were replaced by the invaders.
And bridges and Condos fall down
Weaken zoning laws so we can build favelas, and barrios, and colonias for our newly arrived neighbors from across the border.
Reeks and Wrecks
...is a statement which would almost make sense in a world wherein the construction labor market was dominated by men WITH college degrees, and not the illegal aliens who currently occupy those positions BECAUSE of deregulation.
Don’t forget to have an expansion tank on that hot water heater too.
Can you identify as an illegal and cover your roof with plastic sheeting, then cover with aluminum foil? Being illegal, doesn’t that make you exempt from all laws and regulations?
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Spot on.! The nation needs plumbers, carpenters, electricians, heavy equipment operators, etc.... All are good paying jobs, worked by honest, God fearing, American patriots..
And besides that, the university is the LAST place I would want to send my kid.. He would probably come back home a commie faggot...
Are used books available? Are old edition books available?
Worse. He might come home with a dickectomy.
What kind of deregulation?
Don't you need a good economy to be building and constructing things?
A college professor with a good idea? Sounds good. Do it.
Watch for the fang-tooth feminazis to start screaming over this and to condemn him.
White males are living at home and playing video games….legal immigrants hate illegals…….legal immigrants in the construction industry were sending there kids to apprentice school to become electricians and plumbers…the whites were sending there kids to college….
Lower taxes. Tell those in China to move back and get an extra break in taxes.
#31 He worked in an office. He wore a suit and tie.
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