or as the requirement for workers that actually come to work, don’t use drugs, and can cope with the increasingly absolute need to deal with the computers with which they must use, don’t have the language skills required to communicate (American born Americans), the employers have learned that the task of finding workers is very hard.
Workers have learned that the constant and increasing rate of change means that he who finds a comfortable rut will be in trouble when that rut is bypassed by change and is no longer required.
When my husband lost his job a few years ago, I got a job as a book-seller in Barnes & Noble. I was extremely impressed with the workers - all literate, smart, savvy and good with computers. It was the training of newbies that was appalling.
Yes, that was the thrust of that easy read “Who moved my cheese?”. A warning anyone should have been able to understand, and a way to prepare Americans for the high unemployment that was coming (and subsequently arrived).