In my country there are many many vacancies in tech and pharmaceuticals to name but two well paying sectors–the education system doesn't produce enough people with these skills and people aren't migrating here quick enough. This is not a counter-argument to your assertion that decently paying work is thin on the ground, I'm just pointing out that industry claims simultaneously that there's a skills shortage.
I'm still not understanding something. Are you saying that there is something about corporate work for you that makes you run up debt? Or are you saying that now that you are "dirt poor" to use your words you have figured out how to pay down debt. Is that because of lifestyle choices? Is this to say that if you went back into the corporate (assuming you decided you wanted to and that you could) that you would start to run up debt again? Help! I'm confused!
> This us the least worst thing I can arrange and it isn't sufficient.
Are you bitter or resentful? I'm getting a sense that you are. I have no idea what circumstances have brought you to where you are now. For me, I am trying to both (a) look positively at life by being grateful for what I have and remembering that the world is a big place and (b) made a pledge to myself that I will think deeply about structural economic inequality.
Individually we are helpless, working together we could move the dial. We have to figure out which levers to pull though so our effort is not a complete waste of time. I think part of it must involve the very well off having both a slight sense of shame and embarrassment and there being permanent social structures put in place that prevent wealth from accruing to a select few but that are also resistant to capture. The first nation to figure that out, wow, I'd like to live there.
Such skill shortages are typically caused by said businesses mooching off education systems or requiring people to pay for very expensive years of education instead of sponsoring it with scholarships (with a proper exclusivity contact).
This is the same as companies riding on basic research done by government.
I'm still not understanding something. Are you saying that there is something about corporate work for you that makes you run up debt? Or are you saying that now that you are "dirt poor" to use your words you have figured out how to pay down debt. Is that because of lifestyle choices? Is this to say that if you went back into the corporate (assuming you decided you wanted to and that you could) that you would start to run up debt again? Help! I'm confused!
> This us the least worst thing I can arrange and it isn't sufficient.
Are you bitter or resentful? I'm getting a sense that you are. I have no idea what circumstances have brought you to where you are now. For me, I am trying to both (a) look positively at life by being grateful for what I have and remembering that the world is a big place and (b) made a pledge to myself that I will think deeply about structural economic inequality.
Individually we are helpless, working together we could move the dial. We have to figure out which levers to pull though so our effort is not a complete waste of time. I think part of it must involve the very well off having both a slight sense of shame and embarrassment and there being permanent social structures put in place that prevent wealth from accruing to a select few but that are also resistant to capture. The first nation to figure that out, wow, I'd like to live there.