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JOBS

Let me ruminate on this subject while I am enjoying my awesome Margarita (as in a wonderfully stimulating beverage combining the alcoholic elements from fermented cactus and a sweet lime based additive).

The news business has found another idle topic to ramble about. Jobs! This word has taken the form of a noun, a verb, an adjective (as in jobless recovery); and largely media fodder to strum their broken guitar when nothing else seems to be available to publish.

Root cause for any situation that people face is ultimately tracable to supply and demand. If people wanted jobs they would figure out a way to get themselves the resources they needed to become eligible for aforementioned job. In the absence of access to said resource they would be jobless.

Admittedly the availability of resources is not uniform and hence there is a net migration of people to places and locations that are rich in the supply side i.e. availability of jobs. The latter again is a function of an enterprise seeking an opportunity to expand its footprint by establishing a symbiotic relationship with the available labor pool.

Many evils like joblessness also stem from the humans (H in the HR) being simply lazy and incompetent as to not be skilled to manage the available opportunities. Uneducated masses is a curse for any nation on this planet and each major republic or nation on the face of this earth has their share. The nation's overall standing in terms of wealth generated, health and well being of its people are consequently a function of its individual and collective (which at the end of the day equates to individuals or citizens of that nation) population's intellect and enterprise.

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