This sort of statement is always sort of bizarre. Did you mean there are "many"? Many and plenty aren't synonyms. But even if you meant "many", given the scale of the US population, the working-age portion of it, and so forth, the numbers that are often cited aren't many at all. And that's when the economy is doing great. We've been talking about layoffs here on HN for over a year at this point, it seems like one after the other, so we're not really in that cycle either. There aren't "plenty of jobs". No sane, honest person should be describing jobs as "plentiful".
> The only jobs these Starbucks workers could have done was factory work, and that isn't going to pay for $3k/month apartments either.
That's an interesting theory. I suppose if you figure the factory work is only going to pay McDonald's wages (seeing alot of $14/hour around where I am)...
> Even here, there's lots of hands-on manual labor work in the US
No.
> there's plenty of STEM jobs available,
This sort of statement is always sort of bizarre. Did you mean there are "many"? Many and plenty aren't synonyms. But even if you meant "many", given the scale of the US population, the working-age portion of it, and so forth, the numbers that are often cited aren't many at all. And that's when the economy is doing great. We've been talking about layoffs here on HN for over a year at this point, it seems like one after the other, so we're not really in that cycle either. There aren't "plenty of jobs". No sane, honest person should be describing jobs as "plentiful".
> The only jobs these Starbucks workers could have done was factory work, and that isn't going to pay for $3k/month apartments either.
That's an interesting theory. I suppose if you figure the factory work is only going to pay McDonald's wages (seeing alot of $14/hour around where I am)...
> Even here, there's lots of hands-on manual labor work in the US
Where, roughly? And what's "lots" mean to you?