I will definitely agree with you 100%.
The average employee in our industry is between 52 and 55 years of age. Within 10 years, we believe we will lose between 20% and 30% of our workforce. It is obviously a demographic cliff that we have our eyes on constantly, but it doesn't mean that we don't have things we're doing right now to change that.
I'll take an example from our own business. The average age in my business is 40 to 44. There are ways to work around that, but you have to take a very progressive and a very proactive approach by integrating women into the workforce and by penetrating the poverty barrier to be able to educate, to be able to move people out of poverty into highly skilled, high-paying jobs. Our industry is one that is very much reward-driven. By that I mean that an employee could, within a very short period of time, be making a lot more, and it's not based on time or experience but on their performance.
I'll give you an example. I have an employee in my plant who, within three years, was making the same as somebody who has been in my plant for 20 years, because it's performance-based.
We can take somebody with a short amount of education and turn them into a highly experienced and highly valuable asset to all these businesses, and highly paid.