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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago
[–] HobbitFoot 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can get a job. It will just pay shit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Yes, in the same way that this author’s showers are golden.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

That's the "trickle down" part.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Same way as living in a cramped <300 sqft studio is better than being homeless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

With the right (or wrong) diet it is.

[–] HobbitFoot -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Compared to graduating in a recession, yes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How about both suck just in different ways.

[–] HobbitFoot 2 points 7 months ago

Sure. I never said both don't suck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Exactly, it's a shit-colored job market.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A job market does not itself qualify as "golden" when it offers slave wages to the populace.

The oligarchs directing the media can keep up that capitalist desperation slant, but they might want to be mindful of the consequences. History might have something to say about that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention the amount of "ghost jobs" that people are applying to and not knowing it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What the fuck is a golden job market. Because what I'm seeing in my area is jobs paying below market average and requiring experience and qualifications way above entry level, for entry level jobs. Then nothing in between, jumping up to higher ranked administrative jobs that again, have ridiculous experience requirements

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

"Everyone is hiring, the market must be golden!!!"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

To get a job you have to have a Willy Wonka golden ticket

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So this is an editorial with some data cited so I will attack it on those merits.

  1. The job market is largely a dog and pony show. Companies have all the power in the world when it comes to good jobs. The “golden job market” is for low paying jobs that suck to do. Rates need to go up full stop.

  2. They are correct in housing being a huge issue for both Z and Millennials. It missed the shot however for failing to identify corporate inclusion into the housing market driving up costs. Not to mention the parasite class known as landlords which has been a problem since the era of Lords and Serfs.

  3. The inflation argument is a misdirection. Look at corporate profits. The capital class is literally bleeding the worker class dry, while also lowering the quality of service/products.

I could go on but I encourage others to actually read the article and form your own opinions. CNN isn’t as biased as Fox or MSNBC but they ultimately put a liberal (as in liberal markets) spin on the news they choose to report.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Also that housing is now an investment commodity, like stocks.

Why would anyone sell if they can just hold onto it and basically get free money, with maybe a bit of rent on the side?

Or just using it to store money safely in something that reliably appreciates.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

CNN is run by champaigne liberals who have no idea how regular people live

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me: graduates with 35k in debt, making 14/hr

CNN: Why don't you buy a house!?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

Golden job market?

Minimum wage in my state equates to about half of what a livable wage would be and prices are only going up on basics.

My idea of a golden job market is working a single 40 hour week and being able to own a home and afford to keep my teeth.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm convinced America's gilded age never ended.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I blame Regan for the tax cuts and Clinton for the end of the Glass-Steagall act. It's all bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Even if it did, it's back, baby!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok where is the market golden at? Its corroded aluminum where i am

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For me, a better analogy is pyrite (commonly known as fool's gold).

It appears to be gold, but is in fact cheap iron sulphide. It is sometimes found in association with small amounts of gold, similar to some of those people that tend to come out of the woodwork when we complain about shitty work conditions, saying, "well I have a nice paying job".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You just reminded me, that the homies and myself aren't going to Lake Tahoe this year. My favorite beach there has specs of fools gold in the water, and it's pretty in the sun. The reason we can't go? The prices for EVERYTHING there have tripled, since we went last year....

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Golden Shower Market more like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I'm tired of these We try to explain why young people think they are fucked despite their forbearers stealing their future, articles.