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Saturday 21 November 2009

Globalization has put many (most?) jobs up for bid on the global labor market, where the average wage is closer to $7 a day than $7 an hour. Until something changes – protectionism or peak oil might do the trick – unskilled and low-skill industrial jobs and many administrative tasks will continue their trek overseas. ‘Shovel ready’ is right – ditch digging is one of the few jobs that can’t be outsourced. Yet. That does not mean that the idea of putting “the far majority of the unemployed workers to work at a minimum wage job to work on community and environmental care projects” is a bad idea. It might postpone civil unrest. Some Assembly Required

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