z987k
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My point was that 29k in 1970 is 187k today.
Even Vegas is weighing in on the shortage
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JDean3204
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Oh people will do it, teeeeeeeeeeee'rust me.
Las Vegas Strip: Starbucks, CVS, casino. Rinse, repeat!
The order is wrong. The CVS is last for the Advil.
I'm really more talking about the geography of Las Vegas.
Something happened about ten years ago (maybe it was me approaching 40) but it went from great place for a weekend bender to douchebaggery and pains in the ass.
"Aye yo, bottle service only."
"What? At Circus Circus?"
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
Certainly the clubs have gone substantially more upscale (read: expensive) in the last 5 years. You're right that most places that I've been to in the last year have a frakking charge just to have a place to sit and, as you mention, a bottle service fee. It is $200 just to go stand around and listen to music.
Even trying to go see someone like Steve Aoki at Hakkasan went from a fun way to see a major DJ in a small club a couple years ago to very expensive and filled with a bunch of a-holes in from LA and SF for the weekend who just want to get "caked". It was fun, but no thanks now.
I stick to Tommy Rockers and live music with the parrothead crowd mostly now.
Soku39
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Ban job-killing Netflix! We're bringin' back BLOCKBUSTER!
*tears*
Ha on a serious note for all those who deny technologies ability to kill jobs, my question would be, can I interest you in franchising a Best Buy or buying a mall?
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526607391/as-u-s-retailers-struggle-the-end-is-near-for-malls
I wonder if Amazon and other e-retailers that don't require nearly as many people will find jobs for all those Sears, JC Penny and HH Gregg employees?
Soku39
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This is a very real truth, I'm 80% sure American pilots will have to migrate overseas to continue working, and quite frankly if we go the path of idiocracy and the likes of kid rock can actually can become senators, I probably won't mind either.
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Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
Hacker15e
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Looks quite relevant to the issue in the original post about Las Vegas.
Soku39
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Total pilot jobs depend on the economy at large, and there are indicators that the party is close to being over. Also are there any lower paid Airbus FOs in the country than Frontier?
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pete2800
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WOLVERINE!!!
I'm a big fan of this chart, mostly due to the "size-adjusted" part of household income.It is a great talking point to discuss the gap between "the classes", but more people have moved up out of the middle class than have moved down out of it, and it is a clear trend vs a short-term anomaly.
Household income statistics irk me to no end due to the fact that they're rendered completely useless by the lack of accounting for the variance in size of household across demographics.
Eh, not a great indicator. Are there any more "low-cost" intensive markets than Las Vegas?
Hiboglossi
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I hope you are correct that there may at least be opportunities for American pilots overseas, but I can't help but think the expatriate aviation gravy train so many American pilots have been able to ride will end soon. Sooner or later I'm sure the rest of the world will improve their pilot training infrastructure as I'm sure they'd prefer that to giving jobs to foreigners. If they don't I would happily migrate overseas if the economic opportunities are better.
It will certainly be interesting to see how technological unemployment plays out in the rest of the world.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
As I pointed out though, technology progresses exponentially so the rate of technological advancement is greater than in the 40s or even the 80s. These technological advancements will allow more and more jobs to be done more efficiently with automation so there will be fewer and fewer jobs left for humans, and when new industries emerge they will produce far fewer jobs for humans than in the past.
And I would argue that they were right about computers, it's just taking a few decades. Most of the technological advancements that will eliminate jobs are made possible by greater computing power, as well as better miniaturization.
Soku39
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I visit the third and "developing" world a lot in the ole C-130. Most places we go have a few rotting cherokees sitting out at some big international airport. I doubt the demand for American pilots will go down as the population of the world increases and as their standard of living rises whiles ours simultaneously declines. They might hate us for everything we have and "stand for", but they sure love our individualism and decision making culture as well as our ability to safely operate planes.
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