And more unemployed wharf whores.

I prefer my semen unemployed, thank you.

seamen’s

What kind of abomination is this?

They can install solar panels or wire or something and not have to be away from their family for months at a time. Also the vast majority of seamen shipping oil are coerced captive workers from impoverished places with confiscated passports and no rights. Employed isn’t really the right word to use.

Employ them as the crew of an interplanetary solar sail expedition. We'll be colonizing the moons of Jupiter in no time!

Just put some money into advanced sailing ship tech and in a decade we’ll have advanced clippers with many more seamen needed.

So overseas shipping rates drop and some of the companies convert their ships to give joy-rides in seas (because cheaper sea travel), while some seamen get to explore avenues like deep sea exploration (which seems to be a really underdeveloped field) and development.