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> No wonder China is eating our lunch! Slave like conditions can do that to a more moderate work-life balance culture.
by wishinghand 7y ago
> No wonder China is eating our lunch!
Slave like conditions can do that to a more moderate work-life balance culture.
- rayiner 7y agoThere is lot of room between “slave like conditions” and the modern American trend of decadent children and adolescents that live in a state of extended infancy well into their 20s. From 1948 to 2000, the teenage labor force participation rate was 45-55%. Since 2000 it has dropped dramatically, to just 35% last year.
- barry-cotter 7y ago“Extended infancy”? Really? Protracted adolescence sure, a giant pointless distraction fine, a diversion from things you value, ok, but infancy? Infants and children do not take time off to find themselves, travel, take a career break or whatever in particular you don’t value about this American (and Western) cultural tendency. If you don’t want your children to do this what are you going to do about it? Help them get real jobs without going to college? Accelerate their paths into professional jobs by accelerating their academic careers? Because if you don’t do something out of the ordinary you’re going to get pretty much the same results as other people in your position.
- wolco 7y ago10% drop in the teenage smoking.. not needing to save for buying music / movies. Kids need less money these days and are more focused on education vs work experience.
- nitrogen 7y agoThe jobs kids used to work are also more and more essential for adults to make a living.
- Spooky23 7y agoWith good reason... the labor force is such that employers don’t want teenagers and the strings attached to them (ie work hour limits, etc). They prefer to put adults on call.