Let’s hope! Probably that throw away guess is not the correct one for why shipping is so expensive here. There might be some regulatory mess I don’t see.
I do find it interesting, though, that certain jobs might be undersupplied because of presitige and social factors. I think Scott Alexander mentioned somewhere that plumbers make about the same as doctors, in the US. So if you where a rational economic agent, you would go into plumbing, because its less costly to learn, less stressful etc, but that doesn’t happen, I guess, because—who knows a cool plumber? (Super Mario not counting.)
Even if it’s unattractive, a global company like Fedex could come in and likely still higher unskilled labor for it.
Let’s hope! Probably that throw away guess is not the correct one for why shipping is so expensive here. There might be some regulatory mess I don’t see.
I do find it interesting, though, that certain jobs might be undersupplied because of presitige and social factors. I think Scott Alexander mentioned somewhere that plumbers make about the same as doctors, in the US. So if you where a rational economic agent, you would go into plumbing, because its less costly to learn, less stressful etc, but that doesn’t happen, I guess, because—who knows a cool plumber? (Super Mario not counting.)