Offer more money and soneone will find the skills. I would bet that they interview qualified candidates who exit laughing when they hear the offered wages.
You'll be looking for a long time.
Need someone who can solve a second order differential equation?
Good luck. Those 4000 Americans are already employed, mostly teaching math at universities.
I can imagine 3 generations from now, when our descendants come across a mothballed Atlas V booster in the ruins of a former Florida launch center, and pointing to it as proof that super-advanced aliens visited earth in the past.
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I think our expectations are too damned high in this country. all of a sudden you have to have a college degree to do ANYTHING! even when the job shouldn’t require one!
I mean for god sake! A receptionist , answering phones all of a sudden needs a degree! And it doesn’t pay the kind of pay that a college educated person would require.
There should always be jobs out there for people who didn’t go to college but have intelligence and skills earned with experience.
What’s left out of free-market equations is quality of life. (Because it’s very difficult to quantify, for one thing).
There are hundreds of millions of people who would be ecstatic at earning the US minimum wage. Millions who don’t have electricity, running water, plumbing, etc.
So free-market wage pressure is down.