Where are the jobs? Here.

[Rude Louis]

That's the question that's been bugging everyone right? Where is the work at? Where are the jobs? Students want to know. Unemployed middle aged men and women want to know. Hell, even the 60 year old has to come out of retirement and wants to know.

Interestingly enough, David Brooks asked just the same question:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/op...-the-jobs.html

"Over the course of his life, he combined three asynchronous idea spaces — the counterculture of the 1960s, the culture of early computer geeks and the culture of corporate America. The merger of these three idea networks set off a cascade of innovations, producing not only new products and management styles but also a new ideal personality."

In essence, we don't have the technological leaps that the country experienced half a century ago. As Brooks put it, people who were born in 1900 grew up with horse and buggies, and watched men land on the moon sixty years later.

We don't have that.

We have robots replacing workers, businesses scared to hire or invest, and we have WAY more people coming in than are . . . ahem . . . going out.

So if you wonder why there are no jobs, don't blame the black guy in the oval office. Just look at the big picture.

Also, the jobs are here:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp

[Sir Cornwell]

Very nice. San Francisco has a 108 jobs listed per capita? Per capita = per person.

Does this mean that there are 10's of millions of openings in the US?

[ayingerbrau]

There are no jobs.

[I'mAfraidofJapan]

Jobs is dead.

[36fuckin5]

Originally Posted by Sir Cornwell

Very nice. San Francisco has a 108 jobs listed per capita? Per capita = per person.

It says in the chart that it's per 1,000 people.

[Sir Cornwell]

Originally Posted by 36fuckin5

It says in the chart that it's per 1,000 people.

That makes more sense but the other is more funny.

I wonder what the real reality is? How many people say that they put in apps and don't get any call backs? The government says that there are 3 applicants for every job.

Then there are the employers who only want to hire people who already have a job.

People who have skills and a work history who are losing everything can't all be slackers. I'm sure most would rather work if they could.

It's a puzzle.

[Optionryder420]

I think things are bound to stay this way for a little while. We're just going to have a lost decade, like Japan has had (and will probably have again).

The OP is right, there is no big leaps in technology as of lately. The human race is starting to run low on low hanging fruits to pick, as far as innovation goes. We definitely need scientific breakthrough in some shape or form.

We'll be fine without it, but we won't have the prolific economy of our parents and grandparents.

[I'mAfraidofJapan]

The next big discovery will be energy. I give it 10 years for us to start utilizing Thorium reactors or Cold Fusion one we figure out everything.

[Optionryder420]

Cold Fusion in 10 years? Dude, cold fusion quite possibly doesn't even exist.

Hot Fusion we've been 20 years away from for the past 50 years.

Thorium reactors though, that may happen.

Even then, I don't know if I see energy being the next large growth sector. The next growth sector, I'm assuming, we can't even imagine.

[ayingerbrau]

Just checked again there are still no jobs.

[靠rent-a-jew輩]

the elite want us working people to compete with each other so they can make PROFITS $$$$

that is why there are so many immigrants. they are brought from wherever they come from; Botswana, east timor, patagonia, to lower the wages that multinational companies with lots of rich shareholders have to pay out.

the only solution is to start stabbing and strangling as many foreign people as you can find.