This is the growing dichotomy and split of american class. You have the educated who run the business side and programming side of amazon and from what I hear like their jobs and get paid well. Then you have the labor force. They don't have the education (different class and have a harder time affording the expensive american education or affected by the growing american anti intellectualism) and so they are left with hard labor jobs, which are drying up. Part of the reason they are drying up is that the rest of the world has a vastly lower standard of living (and some would arguer better work ethic too) and so the job can be out sourced to those who will do the same work for less. And now technology is replacing some of the remaining jobs. Seen the automated checkouts stores now? DVD rental placing like blockbuster are being replaced by websites (netflix) and big red boxes in other stores. And automated assembly in factories. These jobs are never coming back.
This leaves the uneducated class of america fighting for the few remaining low paying labor jobs left in the country like these ones that have to stay for locational reasons (the one location on the highway that is with in 1 days drive from 1/3 of the american and canadian population) and haven't yet been automated with technology.
The impulse of many of us is yes to just say "well then get educated" but it isn't that easy. There are big social forces in america about entitlement and anti intellectualism and education in america is also often just bloody expensive.
It's a mess and a further symptom of the growing class divide that now their own lower class people are being worked like we saw nike sweat shops working Asians not too long ago.
I think people really over estimate the anti-intellectualism side of things.
When you come from hard labor you don't have much time to really think about your options. You're 18, you're on your own, you need to feed yourself and pay the rent. You don't have many options. Your family was never in a position to afford college for you, living paycheck to paycheck and all. Theres a vein of fatalism running underneath all of this, your daddy worked in a warehouse, his daddy worked in a warehouse, and you're gonna work in a warehouse too. It is just how it is. It is sad, but it is how it is.
This leaves the uneducated class of america fighting for the few remaining low paying labor jobs left in the country like these ones that have to stay for locational reasons (the one location on the highway that is with in 1 days drive from 1/3 of the american and canadian population) and haven't yet been automated with technology.
The impulse of many of us is yes to just say "well then get educated" but it isn't that easy. There are big social forces in america about entitlement and anti intellectualism and education in america is also often just bloody expensive.
It's a mess and a further symptom of the growing class divide that now their own lower class people are being worked like we saw nike sweat shops working Asians not too long ago.