It’a question of scale, like in any other area. On a large enough scale, you can have an effect on rates.
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Yeah. I remember from some of your previous posts about mass movements of tradesmen from Poland. That would plunge labor rates.
On the other hand, if someone wanted me to travel the equivalent distance for what ever reason, I’d hand them a bill that would make their eyes bleed.
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Yeah, I don’t think Russia’s GDP matters that much to him. His PDP (Putin’s domestic product) is doing just fine. I don’t think he’s motivated by economy. He’s still got grand ambitions of empire.
I don’t get it, nobody has ever ‘ruled the world’. Nevertheless I think he wants power. Money is only partially necessary towards that goal. Supporting assholes like Assad seems to be more to his liking.
That’s why I said we have to deal with Russia. We need to check the blood letting, because they will not check themselves.
Unfortunately, life is still cheap south and east of the Ural Mountains. I don’t have all the answers, but I know enough to know that shutting Russia out is not pragmatic. It’s not fun, but it’s necessary. That is, unless we decide life is cheap south and east of the Ural Mountains, too.
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Well, I wish they would come to the US because I’ve had people do work that couldn’t speak English but knew how to count dollars.
Oh, sorry about that. Since it was a tangent anyway, I’ll just answer here. About all the Pacific Islander football players at places like BYU or the U of U?
If you’ve been to Hawaii, the LDS church owns the Polynesian Cultural Center, and we have a BYU campus there. This may surprise you. Tonga has 60% of the population who identify as LDS. Samoa has 40%, and American Samoa about 32%. And SLC has a fairly large Pacific Islander population, so you end up with some stellar football players who want to go to local schools. I have a dear friend who is Tongan. She grew up in SLC and went to Harvard. She’s super tall, big boned, with this wild afro, and she’s married to a very tall, but blindingly white guy. They have a darling family.
@ Honor codes, I believe Utah is now only about 62% LDS, and SLC is in the most diverse county, with only about 50% LDS people there, so I don’t know if you could make a lot of assumptions about people there. For sure you find many people who are culturally LDS in some ways, but are not practicing. Naturally, more of those folks would want to attend a public school, rather than a private school with a religious honor code that includes dress codes (shoulders are covered in casual clothing unless you’re at the gym, pool, dressed for a sport, etc… and shorts and skirts are just above the knee. It’s not very noticeable on men, since most of you aren’t wearing shorter shorts or shirts that would show your shoulders anyway), premarital sex, drugs and alcohol. @ modesty, clarifying since sometimes people imagine that going to Utah is going to be like visiting the Amish.
@pfury, since I’m on a religious tangent here. We were talking about employment and LDS people in the other thread, You might find this interesting, given your professional life. The LDS church has announced a joint effort with the NAACP to do education and job training in the inner cities. We have our own employment and welfare programs, often staffed by successful business people, maybe now retired, so this is exciting. They’re piloting programs in Baltimore, Atlanta, and Camden, NJ. Notice the calls for more civility, racial harmony and mutual respect.
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That reminded me of this. My kid’s high school has a day where all the seniors come to school in the t-shirt of the college they’re planning to attend. This is a nice way to recognize the young people who are starting as apprentices in the trades, or who have signed work contracts for training.