Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Philippe, the US does have very low unemployment in most parts. However, the jobs tend to be in the larger urban areas. The small towns that used to thrive on agricultural business are hurting. Efficient farming practices mean that the are few jobs there. Very efficient transportation means few jobs in storage and movement. Think about a major crop in the SE states, pine trees. Planting is largely automated. You need one person to look out for tens of thousands of acres until thinning operations at say five and ten years. Then you harvest around thirty years. Harvesting uses a large machine that looks like a giant pair of scissors on a bulldozer. A few people to trim the limbs and back to planting trees again. Ric can speak to the fishing fleet on his coast. In any case the small towns not associated with large cities are graying out. Then you have cities like Atlanta or Austin. Austin's unemployment rate is just over two percent with 3000 people a month moving in and finding jobs. Restaurants and retail are suffering as they can't find workers at wages that customers are willing to pay for. We just lost two iconic eating/drinking establishments because customers wouldn't pay $50 for meatloaf. (Mostly more rent and property taxes) Income inequality is real as those people limited to a location that isn't near a large city have few choices. Those individuals that chose poorly as to education also suffer as some fields jobs are extremely few. An example is a cousin's spouse with a PhD in French History. He is working as a part time non tenure track adjunct at two universities. Excellent references and proven track record teaching but far too many PhD's and far too few professorships opening up. Then you have my son in law. PhD in economics with a thesis breaking new ground. Making stupid high earnings at a large tech company. All the best. On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 3:17 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > What strikes me, apart from your very apt ey and rendition, is the fact > that although the US economy is supposedly thriving with a very low > official rate of unemployment, most of these places seem closed or > derelict. Deliberate? > > Amities > > Philippe > > > > > Le 4 ao?t 2019 ? 04:59, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > > > The Daily Ric > > Saturday, August 3, 2019 > > This year's second installment of signs from around the region. Click > the link to see all 15 additions. > > > > <https://2019.cartersxrd.net/CX2019/2019.08.03.html> > > > > Ric Carter > > www.2019.CartersXRd.net > > http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter > > > > ?When you don?t shoot color, you don?t have to worry about color.? ? Jay > Hunter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information