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You are looking at a too short of a time frame. Expecting a system to be getting strictly better every second of every day is utopian. The real world has ups an

• yellowapple 3y ago
  > You are looking at a too short of a time frame. Wage growth has lagged behind inflation and cost of living since the 70's. There have been multiple job market crashes in my lifetime; I entered the workforce in the middle of the 2008 recession. There have been multiple layoff waves since COVID alone, during each of which companies would lay off significant fractions of their workforce despite making record profits for no discernible reason other than "well everyone else is doing it so we'll do it, too". How much longer of a time frame do you expect me to examine? > Expecting a system to be getting strictly better every second of every day is utopian. Employers have been increasingly shafting their employees for decades. I expect a system to not spend multiple decades getting worse. > shutting down legacy industries My last two jobs were as a cloud infrastructure engineer. If even cloud computing is a "legacy industry" then the vast majority of the users on this website are utterly screwed.