Quote:There's a severe shortage in many fields, problem is the people that are unemployed or stuck in low wage positions are not qualified to work in those fields. That's part of the solution right there, getting those people trained to meet the areas we do have a need of workers.


 

By your logic we should have resisted the industrial revolution, the internet, and robotics research all together. Technology is inevitable, as it advances it will replace general labor where it can, when you create an environment where the employers are forced by law to pay more it only makes that march towards technological labor easier. 

 

Remember, government creates nothing, sells nothing and produces nothing, so there will never be a point that we all sit around and wait for our allowance from big brother while the machines do the work. Government only distributes what it first confiscates. 

This isn't a real solution though to a lot of problems. I will give you a skilled position example.

 

Take the issue of physician 'shortages' in rural areas. What does the AMA do? Make more med schools cause more med schools= more physicians who will goto rural areas. The problem is that students lie and say they will goto rural areas, when really they want to goto the big metro hospitals like everyone else because A.They trained in those big hosp. B. They like the city. C. Their med school was in the metro areas, D. Small rural hospitals don't have many resources and can overwork the few physicians they have etc. etc.

 

There is no real shortage of physicians, there is a shortage of physicians willing to work in rural areas in crummy situations. Thus the wages are driven down in the city/popular areas and inflated in the country. You can't just train anybody for a given shortage and expect them to fill it. Chances are there's a reason that shortage is there, and they will be no more willing to fill it than anyone else, so instead they will simply drive down the wages of a whole new industry making everyone poorer.

 

And there will be quality differences, but at the end of the day, if people can get a reasonable quality service/product for less they will. Wal Mart has flourished on this principle.

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