Posted on 11/09/2013 1:08:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
AT the recent New York Times forum in Singapore, Eleonora Sharef, a co-founder of HireArt, was explaining what new skills employers were seeking from job applicants, but she really got the audience’s attention when she mentioned that her search firm was recently told by one employer that it wouldn’t look at any applicant for a marketing job who didn’t have at least 2,000 Twitter followers — and the more the better. She didn’t disclose the name of the firm, but she told me that it wasn’t Twitter.
At a meeting with students at Fudan University in Shanghai a few days earlier, I was struck by how anxious some of the Chinese students were about the question: “Am I going to have a job?” If you’re a software engineer in China, you’ll do fine, also a factory worker — but a plain-old college grad? The Times reported earlier this year that in China today “among people in their early 20s, those with a college degree were four times as likely to be unemployed as those with only an elementary school education.”
Stories like these explain why I really hope that Obamacare succeeds. Say what?
Here’s the logic: The Cold War era I grew up in was a world of insulated walls, both geopolitical and economic, so the pace of change was slower — you could work for the same company for 30 years — and because bosses had fewer alternatives, unions had greater leverage....
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And I hope you get a rash Mr. Freidman.
In all the wrong places.......
He still supports Obamacare because he hasn’t had his policy canceled and/or force to take out another policy twice as much with 5 times his present deducible.
What transition? Where are these wonderful jobs he speaks of?
Obamacare is dragging heavily on the economy. Socialized medicine will never aid in job creation. The cost and crisis of confidence it causes will drag us into more and more unemployment.
A Rash No. He should come down with shingles.
Freidman: “He’s a leftist...I’m a leftist. Not to difficult to understand is it?”
I hope de gets a rash, too, and that he gives it to his multimillionaire heiress wife, who makes it possible for Friedman to condescend to all of us.
The global economy has changed, and the need for human labor is diminishing. When farms became more automated, people shifted to factories. When factories became more automated, people shifted to offices. Now the offices are more automated and there is no where to shift. We have lots of people and -- to a disturbing extent -- no need for their labor. What do we do with those people? How do we keep them from starving in alleys?
The answer that Friedman is coming up with is: MORE SOCIALISM.
Give the unproductive people free food (EBT), free housing, and free healthcare. They'll be sitting pretty, while a few people slave away to keep society functioning and the goodies flowing.
In my opinion, this is not a good solution at all. But I certainly don't see the GOP pushing for anything different.
Because I can afford to live here, so screw all you little people.
It all sounds so wonderful and utopian. Now, how do the liberals fish people out of the safety net that have fallen asleep down in the thing? Or do they just let folks drop down in to it until we run out of other people’s money?
Just give everyone corns flakes, cable tv, and Soma. Charge it all on their EBT cards. It’s all good. Who wants people to work and be independent anyway? /sarc
Thomas Friedman considers himself above the little people. He is a moronic twit whose theories are more wrong than they are right and who is right at least twice a day like a broken clock.
-— We have lots of people and — to a disturbing extent — no need for their labor. -—
This is what the Luddites said. I would love to hire people to do a multiplicity of things. I just can’t afford to. That’s all that limits employment.
Friedman is an idiot 7 days a week.
Tom Freidman thinks he is just so brillant!!! Fact is, he is a total, dumb, buffoon!!!
Tom Freidman thinks he is just so brillant!!! Fact is, he is a total, dumb, buffoon!!!
Yet another Chine-related anecdote from a Leftist.
China-related
Now, if the government is in the business of handing out food, housing and healthcare, then the government may make such goodies contingent on forced labor from the masses. And who knows? The government might even throw in some cash ... say, 50 cents on hour?
Employment in a market-driven economy is limited by supply and demand and the need to run a profitable business.
But government makes its own rules and now moves perilously close to "employing" people as slaves.
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