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@snowy_again
Ha, your resolve is as bad as mine! But that last sentence doesn't work.
And if they're skilled, there's lots of other jobs (maybe less after the shipping of the manufacturing industries into developing nations). There's loads of more markets to exploit - India and China for example. Or there's shelf stacking at the local super market.
They're suffering from the same market forces that created their wealth. But I guess you're already saying that.