[JasonC]

What on earth are you talking about? Somebody has an unskilled job in an unimportant industry, the job is unprofitable, they get new training for a job that is actually wanted and do said job. What is supposed to be wrong with any of that? "But she makes $2.50 less than she did before". So the bleep what? On average wages rise over time, but only on average. Of course they go down in some industries and for some workers, all the bleeding time. Why shouldn't they? The value of the work is set by its usefulness to consumers now, not by what a given worker did for consumers 10 years previously.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"The value of the work is set by its usefulness to consumers now, not by what a given worker did for consumers 10 years previously."

One would think that that would be intuitively obvious, but it seems not to be on this thread.