Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "USA Job Losses Are Accelerating Rapidly (The HIDDEN Truth Behind The Climbing Numbers)" video.

@davidgoodnow269 Honestly, I'm not surprised to hear 600 rejections. Most businesses aren't hiring people as companies use job postings as free advertising. Most job boards won't charge a business (beyond the initial posting fee) until they find someone for the job. The job ad keeps the business name around. As for your suggestion of "strengthening" qualifications - that's only going to make it harder. Most businesses want the person with the least skills except for the exact skills the job requires. For example, in Australia, if a business wanted to hire someone for hydraulics and pneumatics, they wouldn't hire someone with a Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Degree in Engineering. They'd hire the person with the Cert 4 in Engineering (Fluid Power) as that person is only qualified in hydraulic and pneumatics and thus the business only has to pay the govt mandated award-based wage for a holder of a cert 4. This wage is significantly less than a higher qualified person. As for "how you can help a business by having skills you perceive them to want" - that doesn't help because most businesses don't want skilled people. They want an exact fit who they can pay peanuts to OR they want no-one because they have someone internally but are required to advertise the job under law OR because they're using the job posting as free advertising. Ever had a business tell you that you were overqualified or "we don't care what other things you could contribute, we only care about the job requirements"? That's the reality and that's why I recommend those struggling to get jobs to look overseas and if possible land a job where your skills and qualifications are recognised, get that work visa through the company and move where you're wanted. USA, UK, CAN, AU & NZ don't want people working and only care about regulating everyone out of work.
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@norawheeler2555 They will be replaced - it is all but inevitable. The AI datasets that the general public see are antiquated and toys at best. The more a dataset is improved though training an AI, the faster it learns. A simple block of code which tells the AI to mark anything its unsure of as "needing human verification" will result in rapid improvement as the AI will note what the human verified the thing as and never make that mistake again. The AI will also use that newly verified knowledge to train itself to recognised what that thing is. This self learning results in rapid improvement. I have seen first hand an AI that can do pathology reporting faster and more accurately than any human. The dataset is still being trained using the methodology mentioned in the above paragraph. Also, consider the following: Even when AI is wrong and needs the help of a human, its the same as when automation needs fixing by a human. How many humans are actually required? Only a mere handful. There is no need for billions of people (millions of which are already highly qualified experts). Also note that there are already numerous AI's that can rewrite their own code and fix their own problems - sometimes one AI can fix another when they're able to intercommunicate. The point is one person can maintain hundreds of automated manufacturing plants / assembly lines and hundreds of thousands of servers / computers. Ever wonder how many people big businesses employ in IT - its usually 10 at most and they maintain thousands of servers and thousands of workstations - all through unified centralised management software where they can make the change once and have it occur on all selected systems. This is the problem that AI is creating - it is making people redundant and eliminating many, many jobs. Currently there are no viable solutions and AI isn't going to be prohibited, hence the crappy situation in the world.
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@Igoriann The reason people don't want to get qualified is usually because they're in a country such as Australia where it takes forever to get qualified (TAFE & mandatory apprenticeship) for things that could be solely taught at TAFE in practical hands on classes (i.e. plumbing and gas fitting, electrical work (electrician)). 3-6yrs (course + apprenticeship as both are mandatory) to get qualified as a plumber (assuming you can land the apprenticeship - a requirement to even enroll in the course) VS 4yrs getting a degree and getting a job in another country where you get paid well. Also, the more bureaucracy the govt creates, the more people leave as they can't be bothered with jumping through more hoops and paperwork. The primary cause of this is govt's trying to keep everyone in education and to eliminate every single risk / injury down to paper-cuts. A lot of people are also being kept out of industries because they have a relative already in that industry. In Australia, if you have a relative already working in any medical field, you're automatically prohibited from doing the exam required to enter medical courses so that "the same families don't keep taking all the places and not letting other people have a go". So you get this situation where those other people don't want to do medicine and because the govt prohibit anyone with relatives in medicine from getting qualified, there happen to be huge shortages and thus the govt brings in "skilled migrant workers" because "there's no one in Australia who wants to work". People are sick of this BS, no matter what industry they're in. Then there's people such as myself who got qualified in their industry (engineering), only to have the govt regulate us out of work by having excessive requirements in order to register under the newly introduced mandatory registration, requirements that make zero sense for the industry, so, I went overseas where my qualifications were happily accepted without any of the BS. As for people who want to sit at home and make money - its easy. Plenty of people get paid to do work from home as freelancers, writers, programmers, web designers, etc. A lot have got into financial trading (day trading, etc.). "When the rules of the game keep changing every time you come close to winning, the only way to win, is to not play the game!" This quote is exactly what people are doing, they're pivoting, going overseas to where they're treated best and / or simply not playing the unwinnable game.
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It's usually because getting qualified is being made harder every year that passes. I don't know what its like in Canada but in Australia, the hardest part is getting qualified because they don't want people getting qualified, they want people eternally in education and on govt assistance (easier to control and more likely to keep the govt in power). In Australia, one can't simply become a plumber, electrician or welder, they must: * Find a business that'll hire them as an apprentice * Said business must register with the govt's apprenticeship scheme if they aren't already registered (a lot of paperwork, reporting and cost) * Now you can enroll in the appropriate TAFE course * TAFE for 3yrs * Apprenticeship for 4yrs (you must be supervised for absolutely everything you do as otherwise any work you do can't be signed off - so you usually sit around doing nothing) * Sit an interview / exam on quoting the act "word for word", only now, if you pass can you get the licence to work. And they wonder why no one can be bothered getting qualified. The TAFE course should be all that's required as its hands on. Its literally easier to get a degree and work professionally for more money, even if you have to more overseas than it is to "get a trade".
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That's purely because a lot of qualified people retired and very few are getting qualified because in recent years its been made significantly harder to get qualified. This is purely a supply and demand issue. The system treats everyone as an inexperienced moron with zero way to prove you actually have the skills and be fast tracked - Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) was supposed to let you demonstrate your skills under direct supervision and get qualified quickly, however it turned into "we'll only accept the same unit code from another course or institution". Experience and ability counts for nothing anymore.
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