It's 2008 and the job market is shit
It's 2011 and the job market is shit
It's 2016 and the job market is shit
It's 2020 and the job market is shit
It's 2025 and the job market is shit
At what point is it just a permanent state of being?
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the great recession still hasn't ended for the working class. it never will until we end capitalism
the point of the existence of the job market IS so that its shit and you piggies will take what you can DAMN WELL GET
job markets been shit since ancient roman slavery started driving rural peasants into the cities
It was good for a bit during the black death, but then it was all downhill.
“Sir you must pay me more, my whole family died! So I’m the only cattle rearer you have 😏”
Such good times
This is actually worse than it sounds. Not only are new graduates unable to find a job, but they have taken on more college debt than any generation before them. More debt to pay off with a smaller than expected salary also means a lower chance to buy a home. They will be forever stuck in a cycle of paying debts and rent without building any real equity. They were talking about this crisis back when I was in college (late 90s) and it has only gotten worse since. This generation is turbofucked from all ends.
A highly skilled proletarianized group of young people with no future prospects. My, I wonder what will happen when you have nothing to lose but their chains?
Thank you porky for ripping away one of capitalism’s big cliches.
Capitalism is a lazy system and capitalists are lazy. Said it before but the empire isn’t dying, it’s retiring. The working class is suffering because of capitalists being lazy, complacent creatures.
Of course no one will take school seriously when employers have essentially been sleeping on the job. Work hard for what jobs? Employers don’t want to put anyone to work.
I never want to fucking hear a word of “muh efficiency” from the porks.
Yeah, you’re too efficient. Look at all the humans literally going to waste and no porky, you can’t save them for later they need jobs now or they die. All the educations that needed not happen, all the people who didn’t need to be born and all the resources going into raising people who in porky’s infinite wisdom, they have decided they will literally be born just to die. Leaving all those resources used up for nothing.
Efficiency is propaganda and fake, and always was. Socialism is actually efficency, capitalism isnt, because thats not the goal.
No amount of :smuglord: ing by people who do trades will help either, because if everyone who did college instead did trades, you'd have a similar problem. Also, in my country at least, construction and plumbing is being hit hard for some reason, so it's not a guarantee for success.
“Just to go college, bro.”
“STEM only bro”
“Engineering or coding only bro”
“Just learn a trade, bro.” <- You are here
“Just join the military bro”
“Just start your own business bro.”
“Just live in the woods, bro.”
Bonus round (no particular order):
“Just network bro.”
“Just be a full-time volunteer, bro.”
“Just take online courses porky doesn’t even count, bro.”
“Just accept flipping burgers forever, bro.”
We're so fucked 😭
Everyone switching to "profitable degrees" ends up tanking the value of that degree and it's happened multiple times within the last 40 years. Dentistry in the 80s, law in the 90s, web design in the 00s, and now computer science in 2025. The trades, as you say, are no different. They're just a cheaper version of degrees with higher return on investment.
I suspect if your country is seeing plumbing and construction go down the drain, it's a sign new buildings aren't being built, repaired, or renovated. Could be due to too many empty office buildings since the start of covid making everything work from home.
Classic hog cycle 
hog cycle
Corporate pigs will never be as cool as actual pigs.
I like how they never actually meet in 100% equilibrium, I appreciate the attention to detail 
Learn to plumb is starting to become the new learn to code
In 10 years when the oldest Gen Alpha are young adults: "Help, I did 5 years apprenticing and I can't find work, my parents lied to me, they said I was guaranteed a job!"
Gen Z commenting: "you just didn't grind hard enough bro. How many side hustles did you have while learning?"
The recent robots from china looked pretty cool but I am sure it would never be able to do my job in the future 
learn to trode
I'm going to open a bakery and make communist themed donuts
I'm gonna open a protein bread bakery and call it Yeast Mode
Fuck. Okay how about Breadlift?
Swole Grains
Research shows that entering the job market during an economic slump can . . . hamper wealth building
When do I start building wealth?????????????
BUY THE DIP
But which one? Ranch, blue cheese, sour cream and onion?? So many to choose!
Bean based dips are always going up in value.
I really don't like all these "MAN THE JOB MARKET IS SHIT" articles coming out right when I really want to be like "Hey boss I think you should pay me at least $4/hr more because that's the value of the fucking food I was taking home that you've imperiously decided for everyone must be thrown away instead like you're the Grapes of Fucking Wrath incarnate, plus even without that I'm already underpaid because I do a lot of serious creative work and effort intensive techniques with the food I make that I KNOW you weren't getting from previous vegan chefs BECAUSE MY PREDECESSOR TELLS ME "yeah I didn't do that I wasn't paid enough, I told them fuck that I'm not paid enough" like working on the menu, all of which I do because I actually enjoy the work"
p.s. rate my rant, how likely do you think that'd get me a raise. I could rant WAY harder though
Depends on your boss. There’s three types (unequally distributed): 1. “I’m already paying you as much as the overlords will let me but let me relay your message just in case.” 2. “Oh for sure I was knowingly underpaying you because you never said anything.” 3. “fuck you, take what you get or leave.”
My friend, you and I make for a great rant game. But I don’t any one of us will fill the BMF hole in Hexbear. 
But we can certainly try. 8/10
The generation who had their college/hs experiences ruined by COVID are loving that the job market is just as fun
Oh hey, like in China! If only they weren't copying our totally cool economic system that's working really well right now lol.