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[rattleback]

Yves Smith has fun with a Wall Street Journal article that wonders why employers can't get worthwhile employees at lowball wages after spending a generation undermining conditions for stable employment:

Quaint as it may sound, there once was a tacit commitment: a worker who competent and dedicated could expect to spend a considerable amount of his

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[selki]

Some good comments in there as well as Smith's post itself. E.g., the repair shop van story, and the machinist/machine operator delineation.

[rattleback]

Her regular commenters tend to be a class act. It's my favorite econblog.