Commenter doesn’t seem to understand how much of a drift there is for specialty learning or different negative patterns specialists may have. A front end architect and a computer architect may have similar backgrounds, but a computer architect will take wildly longer to learn front end and likely have some practices to un-learn. Also I would say for certain areas, people are pre-trained for the exact job as the tools or tech between is the exact same. It’s not just commenters who want cheaper labor, capitalism wants cheaper labor.

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throwaway85825 19 hours ago | parent [-]

A lot of employers would have slaves if they were allowed, doesnt mean that the workers shouldn't do everything possible to prevent this and politically demand better conditions. Such as the case in the topic of the thread.

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doc_ick 19 hours ago | parent [-]

I would agree employers would likely want that, though since in the us it’s difficult for labor unions to ever be created let alone extra protections or the necessity of tips or us at-will hire/fire.

My point of your thread was disagreement with the immediate transfer of knowledge: “Most every job can be easily trained or cross trained.”

I disagree with most jobs can easily be trained or cross trained, there is more of a time sync between that.

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throwaway85825 18 hours ago | parent [-]

The national government functions as a labor union through its control of the border and regulating the conditions of employment.

>I disagree with most jobs can easily be trained or cross trained

People just overestimate how complicated their job is because it makes them feel important. If anything immigrants take longer to get up to speed which is why companies usually only hire them when its cheaper. Or nepotism.

	▲	doc_ick 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“The national government functions as a labor union through its control of the border and regulating the conditions of employment.” Woah for some reason it sounds like you’re talking about a European country, not the US where the legal age to work changes every few hundred miles. 1 “People just overestimate how complicated their job is because it makes them feel important.” I do hate to say but I also really doubt this anecdote for majority of workers. Wasn’t there a ford factory that laid off workers in favor of llm (that were trained to replace them) only then to be rehired? 2 1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/09/child-lab... 2. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/30/ai-backfi...