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[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, most of the EU prefers their immigrants to have real skills they want, like Medical Doctors, PhD holders, and be on the younger side to provide all the tax revenue they can get.

But they aren't really in need of low skill workers. And it doesn't matter where you come from. They got all the neurotic home-grown waiters they need.

[-] architect 1 points 9 hours ago

Don’t you take plenty of low skill workers from other regions?

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Not if Trump has his way.

But migrant workers have always been a thing. Doing the lowest paying jobs with no security or care. Things like hoeing fields or handpicking tomatoes. Are you willing to travel from one job to another doing backbreaking work for little pay?

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

real skills

PhD holders

Medical Doctors sure, but c'mon. Education level is not indicative of any real life skill

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Perhaps not. But a PhD is indicative of highly specialized knowledge, like mathematics, engineering, or physics. All knowledge sets that are highly prized by nations around the world.

Waiters need not apply........

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

What is your thing against waiters? Do you believe that they contribute less to society than someone who has a PhD in sociology or some bs?

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

so which special skills do you have?

[-] architect 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I own a small manufacturing company but god damn the eu acts like they only want major corpos with awful labor practices or poor people that don’t even speak their language to immigrate.

You’re smug now but those corpos will eat you next 💗

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I can play 25 different instruments, record and produce music at a professional level, I can direct photography for motion pictures, write television news copy, code in 5(ish) different languages, mill lumber from raw timber, pickle, dry, can, and gernally preserve food, gut and fillet SO MANY different types of fish, build structures out of earthen building material, I can wire photovoltaic panels in series or parallel and am familiar with both 12v and 24v systems, and I can do pretty much anything to a car that doesn't require a lift or a hoist.

But are any of those special without the little paper that says you can do them?

Edit: And as of last year, I can spin yarn from raw fibers, weave fabrics from that yarn, and sew clothes from pattern from that cloth.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

so why dont you get a trade school diploma for one of those?

should be simple enough if you already have experience

the reason they ask for diplomas is because it's difficult to prove someones competence if they dont have that piece of paper, unfortunately

[-] architect 1 points 9 hours ago

They give that piece of paper to rapist celebrities like Bill Cosby for no reason than they are famous.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Because school is expensive and time-consuming and I'm already working full time to BARELY get by. I love school (well, I love learning), but it's simply not an option for me at this point in my life. Obviously I've looked into it (and have a fair amount of student debt to prove that I've tried more than once), but I always have to make the choice between going to school or eating and paying rent, and I usually want to eat and have a place to live.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

agh, that really sucks. i thought trade school was free in all western countries

i know university education isn't always free, but trade school costing money is news to me and news that doesnt make any sense in my head

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

We have a federal program in the U.S. called Job Corps that does provide free technical training in a WIDE variety of trades, but it's woefully underfunded these days, and not well known due to having a reputation as the sort of place wayward youth go to instead of juvenile hall, and you have to be between the ages of 16 and 24 at the time you start.

Free education isn't really a thing here.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

i hope the DSA folk get more influence there, they seem like the only force actually capable of doing any real change within a reasonable time period

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

I mean, yes, but the DSA has had a problematic and interesting history (I say this as a former member/member at large). And it's important to remember that they're not a political party and can run no candidates themselves (which would never work if they tried), so their best bet is to try to turn the DEEEPLY entreched liberal Democratic Party, which is like pulling teeth.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

can u elaborate on what you find problematic about their history?

i'm curious cus i only really know about their present day stuff and not even much about that

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Ohh, a few years ago there was a series of (verified) SA and harassment allegations levied at some of the national leadership, around the same time there was a pretty big controversy surrounding the misappropriation of funds donated my members and also membership dues, and for this reason the Libertarian Socialist Caucus largely dissolved and left the organization. It was a whole kerfuffle

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

damn, that's a mess.

i hope that kind of stuff stays in the past and they can move on

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

Me too. It gives me hope that they're supporting more and more radical candidates, though.

[-] architect 1 points 9 hours ago

Everything costs money in America. Everything.

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