I got an email recently citing some article saying that construction starts would incr![\"Ground_Breaking1971\"](\"https:\/\/constructonomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ground_Breaking1971-300x274.jpg\" "\\"Ground_Breaking1971\\"")
ease in 2011 for the\u00a0first time in some ungodly amount of time.\u00a0 I’d give you the exact number and cite the source and all that, but that would make this much more like a book report instead of the eloquent and flowing stream of conciousness that makes it a blog…er whatever it is that you call this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’m pretty sure, and maybe someone can back me up on this, that companies are making money again – and they’re frickin’ loving it.\u00a0 Now, if they went and hired people, the cost of those people would go in the minus column taking away from their\u00a0ever so precious profits.\u00a0 Unfortunately,\u00a0companies don’t hire\u00a0out of the goodness of their hearts.\u00a0\u00a0And really, I wouldn’t expect them to.\u00a0\u00a0Even though I think the majority of for-profit organizations are filthy and crooked, this is a free market and they don’t have to give hand-outs if they don’t want to.\u00a0 However, they could at least (god forbid) have some foresight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
If construction starts are starting to increase, don’t you\u00a0think\u00a0you will need\u00a0to hire really darn soon?\u00a0 So if you started hiring now, you would have a much better labor pool\u00a0to\u00a0draw from than you would in say six months or a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But alas, there may be a drop in short term profits in order to create a better long-term, and yes profitable\u00a0team.\u00a0 Gasp!\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s really the obsession with short term profits that is the problem.\u00a0 If people would get their heads out thier quarterly financial statments and into a world that involved long-term sustainable growth and improvement, we’d all be better off.\u00a0 And we’d maybe even have a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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