On 10/22/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob La Quey wrote: > > On 10/22/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Wanting _a_ job doesn't mean you have to accept a crap job. > >> > > > > This is a statement that is simply often untrue. Not everyone, > > especially, elsewhere (in space or time) on this planet, has > > the luxury of not accepting a crap job. Of course you might > > say that they can let their family go homeless or hungry. > > > > Do you really think that most people who take "crap jobs" > > do so because they have the alternative to take a much > > better job? > > > > Opportunity is not that widely distributed. > > > > BobLQ > > > > > > > If the best job one can accept is "crap", isn't that motivation to > improve one's skills and/or job options? > > Brian
Not in environments where job options are limited. The more educated of my Filipino family members have all done less well economically than their older brothers and sisters who instead started small rural businesses. You may say this is "job opttion" but the fact in many places in the world the only "job option" is start your own shoe shine business and take it from there. Education != Opportunity. The point of view that you are espousing is quite dependent upon a particular kind of jjob market that is far from universal. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
