
I’d say age 45-55(maybe even as low as 40) without a high school diploma.
That’s another thread altogether though...
I am curious as to how he plans to slide these low skill black workers into wealth creating jobs?@Call Me James out here selling magic beans and metaphorical weight loss pills to black people
Just take 2 of these and you don’t have to worry about an influx of low wage workers and you’ll be making 6 figs in no time
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I am curious as to how he plans to slide these low skill black workers into wealth creating jobs?
... and why he believes cacs will let it happen.
It’s definitely much harder to move up but you gotta start somewhere...
This isn’t to say wages are not important or that this warehouse job will lead to 6 figures but there is value in just working, period.
Discipline and a whole host of skills many brothas and sistas are in desperate need of.
I also believe it’s important for children to see their parents(father especially) and the adults around them employed.
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It used to be that a minmum wage or low paying jobs was a stepping stone to better paying jobs. But that also was when people could support a family on one person's income, had a better chance of moving up the company, and had actual pensions. Nowadays, minimum wage jobs or low paying jobs are stepping stones if you are in high school going to college or another trade school. Otherwise upward mobility is much more difficult in these types of jobs and they have the risk of being sent overseas or just closed own period.
In short, people should work and kids should appreciate the value of working. But watching your parents slave away to nowhere isn't helpful either. Working and going hungry doesn't help with that as well. How handle jobs and wages has to be changed in this country or the bottom will fall out sooner than we would like.
Without hesitation...
Expose your ignorance.
Are you suggesting not working is better for blacks?In short, people should work and kids should appreciate the value of working. But watching your parents slave away to nowhere isn't helpful either. Working and going hungry doesn't help with that as well. How handle jobs and wages has to be changed in this country or the bottom will fall out sooner than we would like.
I'm curious about your experience in the workforce.Without hesitation...
Please, help a breh outexplain how(today) we as a community skip the bottom rungs and jump right into wealth.
@Call Me James
It’s sounds like you don’t truly understand how at the bottom blacks are...
We NEED those low wage jobs.
They are stepping stones.
Your ‘get a meaningful job or nothing at all’ approach is the most naive thing I’ve seen you post.
Edit:@ the insinuation that a living wage is on the table anywhere in this country. Do you want blacks to hold their breath?
Believe it or not those are actually side hustles. I’m an expat. currently in Kazakhstan working as a QC supervisor for Chevron.I'm curious about your experience in the workforce.
Outside. Of the military and being a part owner of a bar and coin laundry what experience have you had?
It seems you've skipped the bottom rungs of the economic ladder yourself.Believe it or not those are actually side hustles. I’m an expat. currently in Kazakhstan working as a QC supervisor for Chevron.
Not sure how any of that’s relevant tho...
Your suppose to be explaining how black people as a community, right now, can completely skip the bottom rungs of the economic ladder and start off in the middle/top...
Take your time.
My position isn't that all black people will skip the bottom rungs of the economic spectrum because that isn't true for any race in this country or even possible with capitalism in general.
The issue here is that blacks should not be disproportionately at the bottom.
Most of the things I said from a voting standpoint are further left than where dems currently are, but that's irrelevant to a more important point.
If only things were how they “should” be.
As for the rest, your position is basically we should support the programs/policies that soften/numb our oppression.
That offset our subjugation...
We do.
We are faithfully devoted to the Dems, and as a voter block always vote left so I don’t know what you mean by “start”.
Your position is the status quo, and in my opinion the most brilliant aspect of white supremacy...Dems got us busy pushing for anesthesia and not a fix...
Not only is it not working, but the rest of the country from the top down has rejected it.
At what point do you question your approach?
Yes, there is still an unemployment crisis in the nation’s Black communities, but what is feeding and ensuring the longevity of that crisis is the ballooning illiteracy rate among Black youth and adults. What happened to that post-antebellum slavery zeal that put educational attainment, including reading and writing skills, as the sustained priority for advancement in American society? How did we drop that ball?