This is a great little piece, and I'm glad I saw it, and I wouldn't have seen it at all had it not been at the top of HN (despite the fact that most of what Mike Rowe writes somehow lands in my Fb feed), and I even agree with I think something like 98% of what it says.
But it still feels like an almost textbook example of what shouldn't be on the front page of HN.
Something Mike Rowe writes about the importance of the skilled trades, how they work, what the market for those people is like? Sure!
But this piece is really just about politics and current events. In this case: politics I don't find very challenging (despite being a Democrat). But still: it's only interesting if you know who the Koch Brothers are and what their role in US politics tends to be.
It would be neat if when things like this came up and got stuck to the front page, they could be replaced with something more important the same person wrote. Here, for example: same form, same author, basically the same content, without the horse-race political hook:
http://mikerowe.com/2016/02/stopignoringskillsgap/
But it still feels like an almost textbook example of what shouldn't be on the front page of HN.
Something Mike Rowe writes about the importance of the skilled trades, how they work, what the market for those people is like? Sure!
But this piece is really just about politics and current events. In this case: politics I don't find very challenging (despite being a Democrat). But still: it's only interesting if you know who the Koch Brothers are and what their role in US politics tends to be.
It would be neat if when things like this came up and got stuck to the front page, they could be replaced with something more important the same person wrote. Here, for example: same form, same author, basically the same content, without the horse-race political hook:
http://mikerowe.com/2016/02/stopignoringskillsgap/