I don’t wish this on anyone except the H1B imports who should be sent home.
That said the auto workers, steel workers, coal miners have been dealing with layoffs for decades. And completely ignored by the elites because their white collar jobs are safe. So maybe it would be a good thing if layoffs hit silicon valley hard. Then they will understand why globalization is bad and Perot was right.
“auto workers, steel workers, coal miners have been dealing with layoffs for decades.”
In the Automotive design and engineering world of SE Michigan, CAD operators can be salaried group managers working for an OEM or they can be salaried non-managerial designers (OEM) and they can be hourly contract employees working on site as “designers” on the same team(s) as OEM employees. Some UAW members are CAD operators but only because they work for an OEM or possibly a major Tier 1 supplier manufacturing facility. If you’re an hourly contract employee, you’re probably not with the UAW or any other union and you never have been because even though drafting is a still a skilled trade, there’s still nowhere that a Draftsman can go to find that kind of employment and occupational representation.