From: null@void.com   
      
   I don't want to be "funny" or anything, but...   
   Regarding the situation here in Britain, you don't even start to bring   
   into focus the magnitude of the problem.   
   That article   
   https://unmudl.com/employers/blog/employers-struggling-to-acquir   
   -technician-talent   
   - attributes it to a narrow "supply and demand mismatch".   
   You don't get any inference of the massive mess-up in society which is   
   the overall structure of what's gone wrong.   
   I lack eloquence to do this, but I'll try.   
      
   "post-industrial" we have the "managerial class".   
   Managing our services; managing what remains rightly.   
   So that's new rulers "in town".   
      
   * liability and not being responsible for own actions   
      v   
   We can't train young people (in Britain you have to use  "welding   
   simulator" until you are "at least" 18 years of age - companies are   
   finding young people with a welding qualification - there is no weld   
   simple enough they can do it and get started)   
      
   * "unless it's a Degree it's not worth it" - "ahh you want to study -   
     here is this much better 'structured, quality-assured,   
     objective-defined, ... qualification' - in other words whatever it it   
     is sitting in classrooms   
      
   * you work on a skill for years - you go to an interview and they ask   
     you a "to objective criteria" series of "angels dancing on the head of   
     a pin" questions - excludes any chance to discuss your ability for a   
     job - more specifically; a device to exclude all reality   
      
   [my friend - she got a job - it's a technical job needing aptitude &   
   experience - because about 5 deays before the then current incumbent   
   left - with months gone by on "interview processes" they had to   
   "set-aside all good procedure following the rules this time" and have   
   the team leader chatting with anyone who showed interest in the job and   
   selecting which one was in that team leader's opinion nett the best   
   choice.  My friend was "personning the fort" alone sometimes within a   
   month of starting...   
   The point is - this was forced on them - otherwise my friend would never   
   have been recruited]   
      
      
   Etc. - keep on applying "sweeps of the same brush".   
      
   Look - you can all relate to this in the USA, where many of you are.   
   The mistake of, whatever terms you apply (all pretty!) - going to war   
   with Russia was mistaken in concept and in general a questionable   
   idea...   
   How did the US powers-that-be get it so wrong?   
   Russia was supposed to collapse within about 3 weeks after "Pew-tin has   
   made his final mistake" - and the Russia economy sailed on just fine -   
   oil-tankers continued to sail; factories continued to produce;   
   newspapers printed new; people went to work - all no discernable change.   
    vvv   
   In Langley, Virginia, if the way to get ahead and switch from barely   
   making ends meet and having a 2 hour commute to work to a big office,   
   good salary, residence in a desirable area a short commute to work is to   
   *>say what the boss wants to hear<* and that has gone on for a couple of   
   generations - you are going to "press the magic button" and find your   
   supreme economic weapon - your secret "nuclear option" (sic.) - isn't   
   even seen by your opponent - you are in an empty room pressing a   
   brightly coloured button with a lurid label but it is a "placebo"   
   connected to nothing.  You pick it up and find it's just got a   
   flashlight-cell to make the button light-up - but that it and entirely   
   it...   
      
   So - step back and see how big the whole non-function is...   
      
   In my opinion...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)