People who are 25 to 44 have experienced major turning points in this country’s history: The oldest of them were Reagan babies who launched their careers in the shadow of the Great Recession, and the youngest entered adulthood during a worldwide pandemic
This is the problem with the “ will always go up in the long run” mentality. Even if Wall Street recovers from the crashes, for the people who come into the job market in the middle of the crash, it hurts not just their prospects then but down the line as well. Hits to long term savings, stuck in dead end jobs, employment histories that are less likely to land higher paying jobs. All of which can contribute to these premature deaths that plague burgerland.
It’s so fucking bizarre that college degrees are things porky laughs at and says “not good enough!” Bro, the workforce literally trained itself and you think they need MORE training before they’re “good enough”? Fuck you, porko.
I need more people to start thinking that what’s bad for “the economy” is most of the time good for them. Why are we celebrating the economy becoming so efficient that the reserve army of labor is piling up in numbers? Why the fuck should I want anything except for porky’s “real estate portfolio” to go down into the toilet?
This is the problem with the “
will always go up in the long run” mentality. Even if Wall Street recovers from the crashes, for the people who come into the job market in the middle of the crash, it hurts not just their prospects then but down the line as well. Hits to long term savings, stuck in dead end jobs, employment histories that are less likely to land higher paying jobs. All of which can contribute to these premature deaths that plague burgerland.
It’s so fucking bizarre that college degrees are things porky laughs at and says “not good enough!” Bro, the workforce literally trained itself and you think they need MORE training before they’re “good enough”? Fuck you, porko.
I need more people to start thinking that what’s bad for “the economy” is most of the time good for them. Why are we celebrating the economy becoming so efficient that the reserve army of labor is piling up in numbers? Why the fuck should I want anything except for porky’s “real estate portfolio” to go down into the toilet?