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Can they afford a middle class lifestyle with just 100k? My understanding of costs of living in California puts people in that range in the working class with a very low rate of savings (no hope to escape into middle class even with compounding) or they could afford a small family and no savings.
That's good for CS and CE related work. Too many people went there not because they liked programming or engineering but because they wanted to get rich fast. Hopefully this means the clogged up job market will stop being the clown circus it is now.
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I didn’t say that there was an alternative. Just that 100k doesn’t make them rich.
Apple, Tesla et al tell you you're not rich, but you can be if you want to be. Learned helplessness.
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Will they make the 100k in the lower income parts of Cali though?
There's this really innovative practice done called commuting.
I can’t believe you’re trying to be sarcastically condescending with this kind of comment. It’s difficult to respect that.
That's good for CS and CE related work. Too many people went there not because they liked programming or engineering but because they wanted to get rich fast. Hopefully this means the clogged up job market will stop being the clown circus it is now.
Getting rich fast, and doing what you love in your spare time, rather than pretending you love your work, which no one does, sounds perfectly coherent to me.
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There's this really innovative practice done called commuting.
It can take 16 hours to drive across California. I can’t believe you’re trying to be sarcastically condescending with this kind of comment. It’s difficult to respect that.
The jobs probably aren't disappearing because of AI but because of previous over-hiring and a slowing economy. It seems like a cover story to push people into accepting underemployment.
CTE/Vocational education leading to underemployment is some straight up Boomer propaganda. A 18 year old who goes from graduation to the electrical union will make $60k in year one. Sure, not the total comp package that those in tech covet but have you looked at median income?
Blue collar is the only bastion safe from AI. As we office workers lose our jobs we need to retrain
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Erm: https://youtu.be/NZf-fTK7q7E?t=592 Sure, he has eye and ear protection. But he's just inhaling the dust from that stuff. Even worse, he's using old school stick welding that's actually been banned in multiple places because it was so stupidly toxic. All your video did was reinforce that, yeah, industrial work looks exactly like what I expect it to look like and it still sucks .
He's descaling with his mouth shut. Not inhaling. > Even worse, he's using old school stick welding. Can you show an example of that? (You linked to him using a needle gun not a stick welder) He's got top of the range spooled feed welders and does jobs at a scale that take hundreds of metres of feed .. these are not the jobs you spend all day swapping sticks for. If you watched more of the channel you might pick up a…