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Have you personally ever tried to train a low skilled laborer into something they have little to no experience in or desire to do?

This is the same argument that I've heard from people (mainly young tech workers) that losing 1.5M truck drivers will just require "re-training". The reality that we can simple "turn a knob" and re-train people is extremely myopic.

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I said "invest time and money", nowhere did I say it would be easy or cheap or fast. The only reason I am upper middle class is because I got an enormous amount of investment growing up, from books to nutrition to upper middle family friends/role models to just plain good adv8ce. If you took my talents and plopped them in a working class family in rural wherever, I would be driving truck and getting high until it all apart, just like the people in the article.

Well, I think you've just answered your own question then. The reason no one has invested time and money is because it isn't cheap/fast and there is no economic motivation (by anyone, government or otherwise) to do so.

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