Same. When I got my last job, they struggled to find people and were desperate to hire me with a high salary + a generous share package.... Then 8 months later

Same. When I got my last job, they struggled to find people and were desperate to hire me with a high salary + a generous share package.... Then 8 months later they were getting 200+ applications for a single developer position. Then I was let go because new candidates were much cheaper. It was like WTF. Obviously the entire economy has turned into some insane scheme. There's no way these sudden market changes are natural. What sickens me about modern society is that whenever they cheat you, they always accompany it with gaslighting... Which is exactly what this 'record low unemployment' rhetoric is. Just like ESG/DEI/wokeness it's pure media gaslighting designed to cover up the fact that they had started discriminating against straight white people. Now whenever a young white person tells their parents "I can't get a job because they're discriminating against me," they give a weird look and respond with something like "Uhhhh, no, no, no, it's everyone else who is being discriminated against, that's what the media said. Sounds like you're just lazy, too lazy to even come up with your own excuses." Thankfully I'm good at explaining things and my parents are intelligent so I think they understand what's happening now but there was a moment of tension. Reminded me of the COVID vaccine mandate + media hysteria breaking families apart. I try not to take anything seriously and just focus on survival. It's like everything is fucked in the most optimal way imaginable. Optimized for fuckery, not efficiency...