UCSD will build new Nano-tech engineering building

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Jobs in medical specialties *are* effectively union-protected. The unions are the boards that define the residency quotas.

Opthalmologists should make a good income. But their income is paid by the rest of us, directly or indirectly. There is no good reason why we should pay them four times what we pay (for example) a pediatrician or ten times what we pay a veterinarian.

Many more people have or had the ability to be an opthalmic surgeon than to be a Nobel prize winner. But our society pays the opthalmic surgeon many times more. I’m not actually personally upset about this. Hey, maybe my spouse is a surgeon–you don’t know. I just think it is irrational and inefficient, and the more other people know about this, the more likely it is to change eventually.

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Sorry, I’m late to this thread. But getting back to the original post.

[quote] the $83.3 million Structural and Materials Engineering center. The facility will generate about 1,500 construction-related jobs over roughly the next two years[/quote]

Whenever I see numbers like these in the news I’ve learned to double check them. Suppose that half of the $83.3 mil went to pay construction workers. (I’m guessing that’s high, given all the materials and equipment that will be needed to build this building) $41,650,000 divided by 1500 workers means the average worker will get just under $28,000 for two years, or $14k per year. Oh boy, that’s gonna cause the construction worker market to rebound.

In truth, it’s possible that 1,500 workers will work on the project total, but many will only work for short periods of time. No way this project will “generate” 1,500 new construction jobs. Not even close. I really wish newspapers didn’t feel the need to echo some bs economic predictions that they’ve undoubtedly been fed by the supporters of this project.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Sorry, I’m late to this thread. But getting back to the original post.

[quote] the $83.3 million Structural and Materials Engineering center. The facility will generate about 1,500 construction-related jobs over roughly the next two years[/quote]

Whenever I see numbers like these in the news I’ve learned to double check them. Suppose that half of the $83.3 mil went to pay construction workers. (I’m guessing that’s high, given all the materials and equipment that will be needed to build this building) $41,650,000 divided by 1500 workers means the average worker will get just under $28,000 for two years, or $14k per year. Oh boy, that’s gonna cause the construction worker market to rebound.

In truth, it’s possible that 1,500 workers will work on the project total, but many will only work for short periods of time. No way this project will “generate” 1,500 new construction jobs. Not even close. I really wish newspapers didn’t feel the need to echo some bs economic predictions that they’ve undoubtedly been fed by the supporters of this project.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Sorry, I’m late to this thread. But getting back to the original post.

[quote] the $83.3 million Structural and Materials Engineering center. The facility will generate about 1,500 construction-related jobs over roughly the next two years[/quote]

Whenever I see numbers like these in the news I’ve learned to double check them. Suppose that half of the $83.3 mil went to pay construction workers. (I’m guessing that’s high, given all the materials and equipment that will be needed to build this building) $41,650,000 divided by 1500 workers means the average worker will get just under $28,000 for two years, or $14k per year. Oh boy, that’s gonna cause the construction worker market to rebound.

In truth, it’s possible that 1,500 workers will work on the project total, but many will only work for short periods of time. No way this project will “generate” 1,500 new construction jobs. Not even close. I really wish newspapers didn’t feel the need to echo some bs economic predictions that they’ve undoubtedly been fed by the supporters of this project.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Sorry, I’m late to this thread. But getting back to the original post.

[quote] the $83.3 million Structural and Materials Engineering center. The facility will generate about 1,500 construction-related jobs over roughly the next two years[/quote]

Whenever I see numbers like these in the news I’ve learned to double check them. Suppose that half of the $83.3 mil went to pay construction workers. (I’m guessing that’s high, given all the materials and equipment that will be needed to build this building) $41,650,000 divided by 1500 workers means the average worker will get just under $28,000 for two years, or $14k per year. Oh boy, that’s gonna cause the construction worker market to rebound.

In truth, it’s possible that 1,500 workers will work on the project total, but many will only work for short periods of time. No way this project will “generate” 1,500 new construction jobs. Not even close. I really wish newspapers didn’t feel the need to echo some bs economic predictions that they’ve undoubtedly been fed by the supporters of this project.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Sorry, I’m late to this thread. But getting back to the original post.

[quote] the $83.3 million Structural and Materials Engineering center. The facility will generate about 1,500 construction-related jobs over roughly the next two years[/quote]

Whenever I see numbers like these in the news I’ve learned to double check them. Suppose that half of the $83.3 mil went to pay construction workers. (I’m guessing that’s high, given all the materials and equipment that will be needed to build this building) $41,650,000 divided by 1500 workers means the average worker will get just under $28,000 for two years, or $14k per year. Oh boy, that’s gonna cause the construction worker market to rebound.

In truth, it’s possible that 1,500 workers will work on the project total, but many will only work for short periods of time. No way this project will “generate” 1,500 new construction jobs. Not even close. I really wish newspapers didn’t feel the need to echo some bs economic predictions that they’ve undoubtedly been fed by the supporters of this project.

XBoxBoy

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