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US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

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Post by yencabulator »

sehansen wrote: post #369
yencabulator wrote: post #345

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That's literally how the canaries would inform the miners about toxic gases.

Happily, this wasn't actually the case. Canaries faint long before they die and miners would carry small resuscitation chambers where the canaries could be reawakened in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. The Science and Industry Museum in Liverpool has one in their collection: https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscit...

Interesting, but I frankly doubt the birds remained utterly unharmed. Birds are really sensitive to many gases, with the common anecdote being to not cook with nonstick pans if you have a parrot.

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Post by jeffbee »

DrPimienta wrote: post #357
jeffbee wrote: post #119

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Thanks. It is very funny how young people perceive this market. Unemployment is basically lower than it has ever been and people are panicking. Prime age labor force participation rate near all-time record highs. The people are almost dangerously over-employed.

The government has spent decades figuring out ways to lie about this. Are you actually shocked? The number of men who can buy a home and have a stay-at-home-wife on a random job they got out of high school is nigh 0% when this used to be the norm.

Leaving aside your misguided RETVRN subtext, none of this really comes down to government policy. All of it is an emergent wage-cost spiral. As soon as your neighbors collectively decide to have 2 incomes per household it becomes untenable to attempt to be the last household with only 1 income.

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

DANmode wrote: post #365
FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #175

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I work for a regional manufacturing company in the US and we have been booming since COVID (nearly doubling every year) and have not seen a slow down. Manufacturing firms seem to be doing really well, here (midwest US).

Where are your downstream clients?

All over the Midwest with some random ones all over the US. Tesla, Toyoda, and ThyssenKrupp are clients, for example.

Re: US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

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Post by 93po »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #287
93po wrote: post #280

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where will brain drain go to? what's the better country for highly educated and desirable workers? especially for americans?

I can only speculate, but many are going back to their home countries. China is also ok-ish from what I hear (at least in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Shenzhen). Native born americans are also trying very hard to move to Canada, UK and EU. But your question is what is a better country for them? A year ago, I would have said none. But I'm sure you're seen the same news that I am where even when immigrate legally, wo…

> The majority of the time, it isn't to save money, but the talent just isn't there in the US.

this is very clearly demonstrably not true. i posted about this months ago if you want to see my arguments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425031

i'm also not really sure why the budget the marines is relevant here. the DoD has a nearly trillion dollar budget. if we're going to randomly segment out expense centers why not focus it even more narrowly to something arbitrary like how much the military spends on flour for pizzas?

for ICE, total effective/enhanced funding for FY2026 is widely reported in the $28–30B from what I can tell.

not trying to be a dick but dont want to spend more time wording this more softly

Re: US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

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Post by DrPimienta »

jeffbee wrote: post #372
DrPimienta wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The government has spent decades figuring out ways to lie about this. Are you actually shocked? The number of men who can buy a home and have a stay-at-home-wife on a random job they got out of high school is nigh 0% when this used to be the norm.

Leaving aside your misguided RETVRN subtext, none of this really comes down to government policy. All of it is an emergent wage-cost spiral. As soon as your neighbors collectively decide to have 2 incomes per household it becomes untenable to attempt to be the last household with only 1 income.

The government's demand for infinite migrants lowered wages, that is a fact.
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