While visiting the lovely Aberdour (not far from Edingburgh) some four years ago, I managed to lock myself out of the B & B where we were staying. After enjoying a few beers with a local legend at a neighborhood pub, my walk back to the B & B passed a small park where several teenagers under some form of influence were howling to the moon.
One particular young man repeatedly screamed "I have no future; somebody kill me" while his friends tried not very successfully to console him. His inebriated pleas went on for the better part of a half an hour, making my wait on the B & B's front steps (for the proprietors to return from a local concert to let me in) particularly sad and poignant.
Now, I don't claim to understand the sociology and economics of the region, though I did learn from a highly reliable source that the educational system and the job situation for those lacking basic skills were rather poor. In the absence of alternative industries and more attractive opportunities competing with Trump's project, I have to think (and hope) this poor chap would prefer a relatively low-paying service job with the potential for acquiring valuable work skillls and advancement to going on the dole.
Sean,
I hope your comments regarding economics and economists are tongue-in-cheek. They are certainly popular. The following is a recommendation for a book which provides an alternative perspective, though written by an economist like an economist, it is, I think, good scholarship and thought provoking.
"The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies" by Bryan Caplan