Is it even that much? Or is it simply the consequence of an aging, burned out populace with fewer and fewer people contributing to the material benefit of society? Is it that nobody wants to work, or are we underpaying service/retail/manufacturing/shipping such that the preponderance of people have moved over to the FIRE sector to facilitate speculation?
It would be nice if we had some subliminal labor action going on. But I think a lot of this really is just The Invisible Hand ushering everyone over to where the money's actually at. I know more than a few people who quit otherwise-lucrative STEM careers to becoming real estate agents and they're rolling in it now. I know a few people who made their nut when their companies went public and retired in their 30s, thanks to the magic of the financial sector. By comparison, the folks who went the trade school route still aren't outpacing inflation, despite demand for plumbers and electricians and class A truckers being at an all-time high.
why does ‘the discourse’ need a fucking neologism for a millennia old tradition of the working class?
Because its easier to blame The Help for an economic downturn than to acknowledge that there's no fucking money in Helping and everyone knows it.
Is it even that much? Or is it simply the consequence of an aging, burned out populace with fewer and fewer people contributing to the material benefit of society? Is it that nobody wants to work, or are we underpaying service/retail/manufacturing/shipping such that the preponderance of people have moved over to the FIRE sector to facilitate speculation?
It would be nice if we had some subliminal labor action going on. But I think a lot of this really is just The Invisible Hand ushering everyone over to where the money's actually at. I know more than a few people who quit otherwise-lucrative STEM careers to becoming real estate agents and they're rolling in it now. I know a few people who made their nut when their companies went public and retired in their 30s, thanks to the magic of the financial sector. By comparison, the folks who went the trade school route still aren't outpacing inflation, despite demand for plumbers and electricians and class A truckers being at an all-time high.
Because its easier to blame The Help for an economic downturn than to acknowledge that there's no fucking money in Helping and everyone knows it.