We voted for brexit and now we wonder where all the opportunities have gone?
This is the result in a total lack of investment in infrastructure and industry in the UK in 13 years, with Brexit making a bad situation even worse. Austerity has killed economic and wage growth in the UK. Can we please permanently kill the idea that the Tories are good for the economy.
Really interesting point the article makes, the difference here is that many graduates in the UK are in jobs that didn’t require a degree.
It used to be the case in the UK that a degree commanded a premium in the employment market due to high demand for skills, but even though the rate of university graduates has grown a similar amount in the UK and US over the past few decades, the US is providing a lot more opportunities for graduates nowadays to take advantage of these skills.
In other words, the UK is squandering its talented workforce with unfulfilling and low skill jobs.
No shit, why do you think so many are leaving for Australia or the US. Can’t wait for this to bite the Great British pension isles in the ass.
This what happens when you invest in shxt schemes to prop a housing market and create small shxtty landlord. Instead of investing in businesses and infrastructure that actually create value for the long term.
I had a job a few years ago and the company was based in the US, we had our US counterparts who did the same as us. We were on about £50k and they were on $125k which even with the exchange rate is crazy.
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We voted for brexit and now we wonder where all the opportunities have gone?
This is the result in a total lack of investment in infrastructure and industry in the UK in 13 years, with Brexit making a bad situation even worse. Austerity has killed economic and wage growth in the UK. Can we please permanently kill the idea that the Tories are good for the economy.
Really interesting point the article makes, the difference here is that many graduates in the UK are in jobs that didn’t require a degree.
It used to be the case in the UK that a degree commanded a premium in the employment market due to high demand for skills, but even though the rate of university graduates has grown a similar amount in the UK and US over the past few decades, the US is providing a lot more opportunities for graduates nowadays to take advantage of these skills.
In other words, the UK is squandering its talented workforce with unfulfilling and low skill jobs.
No shit, why do you think so many are leaving for Australia or the US. Can’t wait for this to bite the Great British pension isles in the ass.
This what happens when you invest in shxt schemes to prop a housing market and create small shxtty landlord. Instead of investing in businesses and infrastructure that actually create value for the long term.
I had a job a few years ago and the company was based in the US, we had our US counterparts who did the same as us. We were on about £50k and they were on $125k which even with the exchange rate is crazy.