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> People going to college and getting jobs nowadays are "NPCs", and the only true way to live is to go on luxury vacations and drive fancy cars full time. What
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
> People going to college and getting jobs nowadays are "NPCs", and the only true way to live is to go on luxury vacations and drive fancy cars full time.
What do you expect when there are no good jobs left over for college grads between the double whammy of a pandemic and LLM automation threats? Not everybody can be software engineers and most other entry level jobs simply don't pay well enough for a decent life in most cities. It's no wonder that the average non-STEM major are turning towards "hustling" on tiktok when their future contains either prostituting themselves on OnlyFans or being a perpetual serf in the service industry.
- andromeduck 3y agoSkilled trades still pay decent - and will probably improve as gen xers who dominate it rn ages out. I think given the housing shortage there's a lot of untapped potential in construction/furnishings we'd only need a but of deregulation to unleash.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoSkilled trades destroy your body and are generally unappealing for very good reasons. The unions play gatekeeper in a closed shop industry with mandatory apprenticeship training (and not to mention the perceptions of class and sexual harassment issues). We need more white collar paper pushing jobs that pay well even if they don't necessarily generate value. If the massive tech-enabled concentration of wealth continues, we will have societal problems. You can already see this happening in countries like Japan and Spain where growth has stalled and the youth are suffering from massive unemployment.