[Huck]

So there are challenges. What a pity. Golly, Question_Assumptions, no one said life was easy. I am not saying making adjustments is easy, especially if, like the guy in the story, you are not prepared for them. But he is there now, and he ought to get on with it.

I don't relate to this "I am a tech worker" mentality. You are a tech worker if someone is paying you to do tech work. If they ain't paying you to do it any more, guess what? You ain't a tech worker. You're an ex- tech worker. Maybe you'll do tech work again. Maybe you won't. I believe folks have a real hard time grasping that. It's a marketplace. If you can't sell your skills at a certain price, and you need that price, something has to give. Either get by on less, or find something else to sell.

[Snerfling]

It's a marketplace.

Huck, I suggest you give it up. You're trying to carry on a debate with a group of people who represent the Dems' next labor constituency. This group cares not a whit about market-place theories of capital and labor. All they want are guarantees, and they're wrapping themselves in the flag asserting that job protection should be an American policy objective.