Haha, yup.
Sweet! Love that subject.
It seems John might get sued this time for real. It sounds like that hack Murray is not fucking around.
Incidentally - That project Bit Source that helps coal miners in these areas become software programmers by letting their education be covered by the work they do, is an amazing way to help us.
Imagine if we had thousands of these projects. Today its coal miners, tomorrow its truck drivers and retail employees.
We need tons of these re-training career paths that focus on mobility and allow people to take a new profession specific skill.
I believe this could be the way that we help millions of people as the work force needs change.
What would be amazing is if you could imagine a coal miner, taking training in a field, and then doing a 2-3 year stint of re-education while providing for his family and at the same time, paying off his training, you're looking at a person who is able to be re-focused into a new career that the market needs.
The question is: besides programming and software development, what other skills could you train people with on sight?
I imagine that some of these people don't have a lot of education and lots of them wouldn't be able to learn some of these skills.
So there would need to be a wide selection of different disciplines to choose from, and it would need to be re adjusted in accordance with fitting into the regular education system.
But if you're a coal miner without a job, and you had 10-20 different professions you could choose from between labor, care, service, development, production, maintenance, there would have to be something for nearly everybody?
There are so many people who are going to need this, that the coal miners might just be like a alpha phase or beta phase. It's going to be scared when truck drivers and retail workers are going out of work. That's a lot of low skilled people with seriously diminishing options.
