Now try finding a job aged 50+ ..
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I was talking to a headhunter friend, told him I was thinking about looking for a new job. He just said "No" and sighed.
The more people who can't get jobs, the bigger the crowd demanding UBI.
If the population starts demanding more they will make it harder for you to make demands.
You might see things like social media sites that were open and free being purchased by billionaires and transformed into unrecognizable sewers.
You might see things like protests violently suppressed by massive police presences that fire on crowds that are both unarmed and non-violent.
You might see things like insane brazenly partisan gerrymandering and voter purges.
You might see things like people being arrested and disappeared for the reviews that run contrary to the regime.
If you see any of these things, you might be in trouble because it doesn't matter how many of you demand UBI or food or shelter, bullets are cheaper and they've already shown that they're willing to use them.
It will never happen until we destroy capitalism and the rich
UBI?
Universal Basic Income
Maybe that demographic will finally participate in elections.
They do when they are represented. If all your politicians are over 60, and nobody runs on young people's issues, while nobody can run who is not friends with the people already in the in-group, the only way young people can participate is by grabbing a rifle.
Case in point, in my country there is kind of a political vacuum and young people can make a difference instead of being dismissed outright, which makes young people vote, be politically active, take stands and run for office.
What are “young people’s issues”?
The housing crisis hits them hardest. The lack of entry level jobs and the abysmal nature of entry level pay. The state of education, particularly higher education. The lack of representation itself.
Who is campaigning on bringing house prices down? On forcing higher wages and better conditions on entry-level jobs, and forcing companies not to eliminate entry-level jobs en masse with AI? Affordable quality education?
The countries that get that ball rolling first will have a massive advantage. AI and humanoid robots have a massive push behind it right now.
They are discovering what old graduates have known for years. Most jobs are service industry and are harder to get day after day.
Anyone aged 15 to 25 in the year 2008 knows.
Anyone 15-25 in the 90s knew, too. That or military/prison.
I graduated ten years ago, it's way worse now. I guess this is what 2008-2010 must have been like.
I have been looking for work for months now and i had no problems in 2009... everything is just so much more and it only seems to be getting worse by the week...
I think the difference between the 2008 crash was that it never actually stopped. People never recovered, credit debt has only gone up... people are at their absolute limits.
Covid pushed people further and companies cut jobs increased prices... while supply dwindled but once supply went up prices did not go down.
While pay has basically stayed the same... and now prices are skyrocketing. Jobs are disappearing or never existed because they got compensation for "proving they were trying to hire people during covid or some bullshit"...
Ai auto correct is taking peoples jobs now also... not that companies are better off for it but it saves them a buck today...
So yeah, it's so much worse 2008 was just the beginning
Yes I’m stuck in the service class forever unless I kill kyself.
It's brutal right now. I was fired without cause in January (well, I was fired for having a disability, lawsuit in progress) and just now got a job offer. A terrible job that pays about 1/3 of my last job and it doesn't start for another 2-3 months.