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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I agree the assumptions are unnecessary. However, saying "people can just join the union" or "people can just learn the over-valued trade" isn't logical at all - there are reasonable (and startlingly low) limits to the ability to do this (which is the crux of my argument, and the part that's missing above).
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And I was never really saying that either. Although I do think that if people are so jealous of *trade* then they should actually go into it. The reason they're not going into it is probably why the pay rate is so high. Plumbers for example.
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Past a certain point, there isn't any more painting to be done. Yet those painting dollars have still drained the available cash (which is also finite, although admittedly in a much more complex fashion).
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Of course. However, as I said, it comes down to the data rather than the assumptions we're making.