Well, we didn't have childcare provisions or maternity leave laws forty years ago when things were booming, so those aren't likely to have any causal bearing. It's also the same healthcare system; the difference is that there have been 30 years of legislative attempts to make it "more affordable". Interestingly, the only sector of the economy where costs have increased at a similar rate to healthcare is higher education, which has seen over forty years of "affordability" action. And please note the distinction between legal and illegal immigration.

Wish I had mod points....spot on everything.

Be a doctor....they're will ALWAYS be sick people.

If you point out a significant demographic that is perhaps useful so others can make assumptions.

As I assume you point out that Americans are 75% white so we can afford 71% unemployment of white peoples?

I can explain; the theory is that we want a deadbeat tenant who pays nothing in rent versus an absentee tenant who pays their rent.

If I canâ(TM)t look at Elon Musk every day prancing around with a cheese hat and pretending to understand rockets I donâ(TM)t know what Iâ(TM)d do.

Thereâ(TM)s a YouTube contributor named âoeVaushâ who highlighted an email about the cost of painting a road to make a pedestrian crossing. Just painting some white stripes at an intersection. Actual cost of materials and labor to just do it; $320. But to do it officially? $1.4 million.

America is cooked. The worker and the paint supplier will fight over that $320, and all the parasites of our rent seeking system over a million. We could not build a bridge or a damn today without a billion.

We are cooked.

When society resets, you can build the entire Panama Canal for three roasted poodles and a couple pigeons.

âoeWeâ didnâ(TM)t decide anything. The ignorance as supported the good ideas suppressed.

All our problems were caused on purpose and maximized profits and made us dependent.

Our energy infrastructure is to have control. Our healthcare expensive. Our housing. Everything is about wealth extraction and the âoegovernment out of our businessâ never affects the complexity or cost. It just means monopolies with barriers to entry.

We have global warming because of the petro dollar.

This is all about wealth extraction. Itâ(TM)s all about a cabal of degenerates who want to guarantee their own supremacy. Any solutions that donâ(TM)t take care of the Black Rocks, the Rothschilds and the Carlysle Group are doomed to be co-opted. Is the Sierra Club promoting timeshares yet?

Letâ(TM)s recognize the auto mechanics who now have to work on impossible systems that list as requiring 4 hours to fix but take 16.

The truck drivers who have a long boring task and will be replaced soon.

The people who distribute our food. No glory.

The medical professionals who squeezed through an expensive gauntlet that restricted numbers and now are burnt out and need an accounting degree and an air traffic controller to efficiently coordinate the 200 patients they need to help in a day.

There are so many paths and they all suck.

I have to admit Iâ(TM)m a discouraged worker. My resume looks like you wanted to win every and all BINGO competitions.

Normal people invest in things that give them a reward. Not pick up a skill because one day it will be useful.

Other people who have more ability to learn than endure boredom get a lot of skills.

But the 5 year humiliation ritual that is fishing for jobs with bots and companies that pretend to hire and have 30 minute interactive systems to extract your data and waste your time are too much of a gauntlet.

I could actually build a heat to light converter easier than I can convince someone in HR that Iâ(TM)m a good worker.

If I had a living wage I could hire someone to do the tasks I donâ(TM)t have the bandwidth to do. Itâ(TM)s called specialization. Apparently only rich shits think their huge minds are valuable and need others to do the simple tasks. Like Elon has the engineers solve the simple âoebuild a robotâ work and he has the glorious âoehey, letâ(TM)s build a robot.â

Anyway, I just have to vent. The super smart people who could solve the worlds problems if given the support know what Iâ(TM)m talking about. Other people who can be motivated to work harder through fear â" they wonâ(TM)t get it. The more the dire consequences involved, the less likely I am to do it.

TL;DR. We built a specialized codependent society and outsourced the boring parts and didnâ(TM)t appreciate them and now it costs too much to get it back.

I would say that any kind of substantial level of investment in a jurisdiction is a reasonable indicator of an expectation of a return on investment, and thus confidence in the economic growth of at least some industries in that jurisdiction. I'm not sure why people are trying to hand wave away that kind of an indicator, unless the fact of it creates some problem for some narrative they have bought into, creating a level of cognitive dissonance necessitating peculiar denials.

Theyâ(TM)ll have to import skilled labor from a country that subsidizes education.

Wait, the Norwegians arenâ(TM)t coming, best we can do is Pakistan?

Someone call ICE so they donâ(TM)tâ" oh damn. Okay, is there another country we can import skilled labor from that we donâ(TM)t have to invest in our people?

Wages and career prospects are a factor in what students chose to major in:
- Business and Finance: relatively easy courses, excellent career prospects and very good pay. Good social status too
- STEM: work long and hard to graduate. Wages are decent but in general there's not a lot of upward mobility (unless you go into management). And no one looks up to engineers.
- Academia: unless you love what you do, forget about it, because you're not going to get anything else out of it. Not even tenure, these days.

Things I thought would never happen, happen all the time these days.

It should be the job of a good government to make sure there is enough competition and to prevent such bottlenecks.

But the offshoring of jobs was done on purpose. At every level we are made dependent on cartels.

Itâ(TM)s like the Irish potato famine. They raised the potatoes in Ireland. There would not have been a famine if all of the potatoes didnâ(TM)t go to England.

more than likely its the fact linux people more likely to use ublock, noscript, pi-hole or other equivalent methods that end up preventing from being reported to 3rd party tracking systems.