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Oh, yes, everyone can "just" switch careers into difficult, underpaid, passion-driven work paid for with money that already doesn't exist, let alone in an economy where Amazon & friends rake in 90% of all cash flow and has no employees to pay it out to.

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ICE got billions of dollars this year seemingly out of thin air, and they are paying up to $50k for a signing bonus. The manhattan project went from nothing to an operation with 130,000 people in just four years.

You really don't think we can just fund people to go into healthcare or teaching? You understand that there is no real reason for those professions have to be chronically underpaid and overworked, right?

Yes exactly - "Anything we can actually do, we can afford"

I would also suspect that more than 50% of the people working this kind of unskilled labour do have aspirations to do more, it's just that it's hard to switch because they cannot afford to, they're working towards it or they're kind of stuck.

We certainly have the money, but there is no political will to make it happen. I'd love to see the military budget cut it half and it fund social programs and more teachers. But baring a social revolution (which may indeed be forthcoming) it won't happen. That's the harsh reality of our late-stage capitalist society.

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