Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Is The Collapsing Relevance of a College Degree... A Good Thing?" video.

  1. At least in Canada there's a giant rub with the trades. Foreign workers. It's rare in some cities to see white people on the job sites. I know this better than anyone because I orient each new worker at a big site for a massive company and English is the first language of maybe 20% of the workers on the last several sites I've worked on. At least where I live in Vancouver, we have fully entered into South Park territory. They didn't "took our jerbs", but they've certainly accepted much lower wages so our pay hasn't even come close to keeping up with inflation. The upside is that there's absolutely no chance automation is going to take the vast majority of jobs here. I used to do renovations and there's absolutely zero chance automation will take that over within my lifetime unless we start making houses in a completely different way. The only comfort I have is a relatively decent amount of job security. It's crazy though because my company offers all of us a $1000 bonus if we can find a new worker for our department yet I haven't gotten a raise in years. It's the strangest thing.
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