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No Country For Young Workers: Only Americans 55 And Older Found Jobs In March
We first showed back in October 2012 that in America, courtesy of the Fed's micro-mismanagement of everything, the labor force has been turned upside down, and the only jobs being created are those for aged workers, Americans 55 and over. The reason is two-fold: with savings rates at zero, Americans who were on the verge of retiring found that the fruit of their labor was worth nothing under ZIRP (and may well be punished under the upcoming NIRP) as their savings (and fixed income investments) generate zero interest income, while young Americans would rather stay in college by the millions funded generously by trillions in Uncle Sam student loans.
In any event, this is nothing short of a recipe for disaster, as aged workers have no leverage to demand higher wages (hence the lack of any broad wage growth), while Millennials and other young Americans, instead of entering the work force and accumulating job skills as well as wages, get more and more in debt.
All of this was on full display in today's jobs number, which while disappointing wildly based on Establishment survey data, was even worse based on the Household survey where only 34,000 people found jobs in March. But it was the age breakdown that was the stunner, and it can be seen best in the chart below.
In short: America continues to be a country where there are only jobs for old men, those 55 and older, who saw a 329,000 increase in jobs in the past month. Every other age group saw job losses!
And the real kicker: since the start of the Second Great Depression, only the 55 and older age group has seen job increases. Those 55 and younger are still 1.2 million jobs below the level they were are on December 2007.
And just in case there is any confusion, here is just the number of workers aged 55 and older. At 33.1 million they just hit a new all time high.
Oh, and finally, for those who may be wondering. It isn't because of early retirement. Unless of course, those retiring early are workers aged 25 to 54.
Source: BLS
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Hey. I'm older than 55 and the quality of jobs available are shit. Beyond shitty. But at least I'm working 80 hours per week and surviving at less than 50% of what I made prior to 2008.
I can't drive 55!!!
Yeah you can. You just gotta hit on the slutty grandmas.
Work ethic.
Period.
OK, so that's one more check box for 'employed' and 'fully satisfied'.
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these youngsters will eventually use their abundant free time overthrowing the old fucks of the world
Or they could just move to Australia.
Or just kill each other off faster than they are now!
No wonder robots are taking over jobs.
The "old fucks" earned enough money to buy security systems and semi-automatic guns. Good luck committing felonies on these guys and living to tell about it, youngsters. They won't simply roll over and give you what they worked for their entire lives. They expect you to work for it as well (the nerve!!!).
Are youngsters being screwed by the Fed and government(s) promising to take money from them to give to other people? Yes. But committing felonies against the "old fucks" won't fix the Fed or government(s). The "old Fucks" are being screwed by the Fed as well. They are not being screwed as badly by the government because they were in on the government ponzi schemes, forced on them by the government, early. Government(s) now expect and demand that youngsters pay for the government forced/created ponzi schemes.
Don't forget. 5 to 1, they got the guns but we got the money...
All depends how you define money.
You can't hold out indefinitely in a siege situation no matter how deep you are dug in. It is easy to isolate your weapons until they run out of ammo with no ability to replenish it. It becomes a numbers/stamina game at that point. Remember a blade doesn't need to be reloaded. It maybe an old barbarious relic but a tried and true one.
Time is also not on an 'old fucks' side either if a stalemate breaks out.
Need I remind you: "On a long enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
The young voted for Obola but it is not like any elections are real.
The joke is young and old Americans like stupid sheep keep supporting the elites by watching TV, Hollywood's shit, going to theme parks owned by Hollywood scum, using facebook, using big banks like dumb fux. Retards.
The old fucks gotta keep working to pay for 30 year old Juinor's craft beer tab and the little princess has to have the iphone 6, the art and fashion degree's did not really pan out. Fuck no they are not going to work like their old man did when he was their age, eeeew that is mexican work.
Funny, because I know an old fart who's paying for his little princess to study fashion in college. In other words he's paying for her to party and be a slut for 4 years, then come home and live with daddy -- forever unemployable.
Daddy works like a dog for asshole bosses and hates his life. But he's not smart enough to jump off the treadmill and tell princess to get her own life. Sad.
Then she can always blame the oppressive white male patriarchy when she looks back and rationalizes why she never was successful. Its a Win Win for her.
I can't see them stepping away from the game console long enough to do that. Now when the power goes out they may venture outside.
where do you live?
flyover country. large metro area. trying to get my kids to go to a more pleasant (as in warm) climate. No luck. they, unfortunately, want to move back and endure hot summers and cold winters. i just want beach front living.
This country is a snake eating it's tail.
They have shipped out whatever they can ship out, and use retirees to fill the remining slots the H1Bs and Mexicans cannot fill. Part time, plenty of them. Young, non medicare folks just cost too damn much.
Ship is going down. Local Walmart just removed like 10 checkout stations and put in self checkout. One frazzled almost ready to go postal person in charge of 10 stations? Lol.
pods
The more amusing aspect of this is that Wal-Mart just announced, to great fanfare, a general wage increase for its loyal workforce.
Meanwhile, back at HQ, they are planning to replace their workforce with as many LGBT? machines as possible. Appleby's is replacing waiters with iPads. The entry-level jobs of yore are dying.
This isn't necessarily bad. But what comes next?
We can all become painters and sculptors. Empire collapse art is always very sought after.
pods
Seriously? That actually sounds like a legit idea. I'm pretty good a 3D modelling. Couple that with a 3D printer and I've got myself a nice little niche business!
Of course. Watch how fast automation comes after the $15 minimum wages kick in. That plus obamacare is a huge stab in the heart of entry level jobs. Young people are going to have to start their own businesses or live in the basement forever.
"They have shipped out whatever they can ship out..." Believe me pods, they have only started. For e.g., the big four are now expanding their operations in India... big time. One of the big four has more or less stopped hiring anybody below a senior manager in the US. Everything is moving to India. Slowly but surely the top paying jobs are going overseas. The country is being hollowed out, one day at a time, and the plebes are sleeping; no, sorry, watching Lardashian's ass and freaking out that Tom Brady jumped off a cliff. Oops, sorry, gotto run... the march madness is on. Fuck jobs... not the dead one!!!
Guess it's time to start lying about my age...again.
Born in 61 and yes, I'm 55. Pulling the old clever lever again.
Born in 61 and yes, I'm 55.
Let me quess.....we're your parents in Selma AL?
"Born in 61 and yes, I'm 55."
I hate to break this to you but don't apply for the jobs requiring you to do math. If you were born in 1961 you are either 53 or 54.
Um, he was joking. That was a joke.
Somebody fact check me on this, but in rough numbers I believe the total civilian working population is something like 130MM people. OF WHICH those aged 55+ are about 33-34MM of that, going by the chart in this article, above. Which would mean they are about 25% of the total work force. Could that be right?
Based on a quick survey of Wal-Mart greeters and cashiers they are about 90% of the total work force.
There are no more Walmart greeters; they stopped having them several years ago.
I just read in a Toronto newspaper that some high school districts in Ontario, Canada are considering getting rid of the annual "final exam". The "pro's" are saying that exams cause too much stress, so the best thing to do is eliminate the stress by eliminating exams.
Some districts have already done away with exams. Also, some Universities in Ontario are also looking to get rid of final exams.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-death-of-the-exam-canada-is...
Let me ask you this, would you trust your business with the next co-hort of university graduates??
Testing no longer measures comprehension. High school finals are mulit choice, if it was in all essay form or public debate then possibly.
multiple choice with no wrong answer, wouldn't want to hurt someones self esteem.
Multipe choice with one choice. They would have to change the name of the exam from Multiple to Single Choice. Oops...Choice infers more than one possibility, so they will likely have to go with Check Box.
Exactly! They don't have to be accountable in school so they know no other system. Then these kids come into the work force with the same work ethic. "What's in it for me?" Not "what can I bring to this company". If I am a business owner do I hire a 55 year old with a solid work background or a young one checking their phone every 5 minutes. No brainer.
College degrees have been suspect for years. How many of you know the minority kids get a diversity grade boost so they can keep up appearances? That's right. The diversity crowd gets special treatment in both entrance requirements and in grade point average.
If your doctor is a minority, there is a good chance he didn't really graduate college. At least not at the same standard as everyone else.
>>>If your doctor is a minority, there is a good chance he didn't really graduate college. At least not at the same standard as everyone else.
That's true for American-born non-Asian minorities. The hurdles for a non-US/Canada individual to get into the US medical system are high enough so that those who do are as good as, if not better than, the average native-born doc. FWIW I'm a US-born doc myself, and have spent decades working both inside and outside Amurica. So, your Indian practitioner might be a bit hard to understand, but the odds are he's as competent as the home-town guy.
I see a clear trend of the "progressives" driving the entire system towards effortless, stress-free, riskless life of easy-living, comfort, and abundance.
Would it not be better for the central banks to just create money and give it directly to "the people" so that everyone can be prosperous, everyone can buy whatever they want, the economy can be on turbocharged afterburners, no one needs to worry about getting educated, or skilled or finding a job, no need to monitor economic data, etc. Think about it, the central banks are already creating the money, but they are not distributing it so that it can be spent.
I propose that the best way to accomplish this is for the central banks and government tax collectors to collaborate and just simply refund ALL the income taxes ever paid by every living person - that would put a huge amount of spending power into the economy PLUS correct a fundamental immoral injustice.
Even the most strident leftist understands that they still need some people to do the work. They can simply imprison and enslave this critical resource or temper their ideologies to the level to allow a few non-believers to resist and actually try to outwork, outrun and outsmart them. Production is an absolute necessity to survival and someone will have to do it.
The ideological left sees the work ethic as a mental disease driven by greed. They sincerely believe they could tax earnings by 100% and there would still be a few crazies out there that would still be working. They see us as a mule perpetually willing to pursue the carrot on the end of a string, regardless of load and humiliations.
They may be right, but this mule bites and kicks like hell!
Fuck the progressive/statist/communist assholes
Great suggestion but there is no cock big enough in the universe.
Too stressful. Haha! What is stressful is being in business and looking a month out.
Perhaps we should start lumping Cannucks in with 'Muricans among those for whom a college degree is deemed worthless than a high school diploma in the civilized world...
Seriously, I'm not 55 (yet) but even a few decades ago the ability to read and reason, and then write or quantify answers correctly was a prerequisite to entrance to university, as distinct from grades 13, 14 et al. Now I routinely come across graduate, post graduate and professional papers from fields I have never even seriously studied that are published despite being incorrect/impossible because some troglodyte that the system failed upward didn't properly understand the premise, prerequisites or foundation of the field or misconstrued the application, relevance or significance of their own data sets.
Fuck the next bunch of university graduates, I wouldn't trust the current bunch of university graduates to flip my burgers or make my coffee correctly, much less maintain my balance sheets.
So this means boomers are retiring, right? I heard that on CNBC or something.
Good or Bad these are all made up numbers, to be revised years latter. Its all make believe, just like everyt other number that comes out.
That makes no sense. Who would hire an old man?
an old man, and guess what - they own a large portion of small businesses...
As a 61 year old small business owner, the average age of my employees is early fifties. Mostly a bunch of angry old white men...but they still show up and work. This is the key. Showing up and working. Those with the entitlement mentality will always eventually fall back on the only source of entitlements...the government. I have watched it "progress" for years now. That's why there is mostly only old guys like me left working...mental disease.
Yes, work is a habit we learned when we were young from our parents, family and neighbors.
Unfortunately, so is slacking off, collecting benefits, smoking pot and streaming Netflix.
Yo! You got a PROBLEM with angry old white men!??
I think Obama do.
I feel ya Bro'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYETHsxAv8c
'nee body what recanize dat d'bility to woik on y'own cars take lotsah commun senses...'n dat you will get d'job done brothah...
Why work when the government doesn't?
Looks as if men 55 and older are the only ones left in society that know how to do anything beside waiting for their government subsidy to be direct deposited into a checking account for use with an ATM card.
Work until you die in the Gulag !
In NJ the only hires. Are 52YO "retired" cops. With a $80,000 pension and a new public job for $100,000.
"We see it as an entrepreneurial bill. A bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations, because you will have healthcare; you don't have to be job-locked."
-Nancy Pelosi
The source of all their power is spelled D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.C.Y
yeah, ain' she cute?...I likes to rafur to Miss Pelosi ad' "EBT Nanny", yeah dat my pet name fo' Miss Pelosi...she be lookin' out fo' d'little guys...
< YES
< NO
Take you Social Security at 62 rather then wait for maximum payments.
My wife is 10 years young. I will be retiring at 60
Perv.
Right there with you at 61 with a 10 year younger wife, except....she won't let me quit. I have Obama and my wife on my back!!!
But at least she is working hard towards our benefit which is quite the opposite with Obama.
Obama just tells me to be thankful he doesn't take more...and I didn't build it anyway (my business). A not so silent partner.
At 66 I still haven't taken SS. I still consider myself a productive person in this mess we laughingly call a country. I don't look at SS as something I am owed,,, rather like insurance I will use it when the need arises. For those that do not think SS a form of insurance than take a gander at what FICA means. This acronym is from a different time,,, before gov started their propaganda that it is only a pay as you go scheme so they could spend the monies on the wars, MIC and ---student loans--- ......
Today gov has trashed any sense of independence by offshoring the jobs and onshoring cheap labor making most/many Americans nothing more than beggars in their own country AND pitting them against each other by race, age, gender and ethnicity.
It depends on other conditions. If you are employed, your level of benefits may be resuced. If you are unemployed and your spouse is employed, some portion of your SS benefits may be taxable as normal income.
OTOH, if you feel that the days of SS are numbered, get what you can while it's still available.
What America really needs is another option: give me all my money back, including what my employer "contributed". Oh, and adjust it for inflation..
'ceptin' it be oldah den 62 cuz Clinton signed a rollin' addishun to minamum d'age dapendin' on how owd you was at da-time...fo'zample, it be 62 'n 6 munths fo' me...if'n I ever woiked dat is...
dis' zample of why d'SocSec be goin' broke and $hit:
see if'n I evah did woik, n' 'nuf to get some SocSec, seeins' I gots a handicap son, n' mah wife be takin care of him full tahm, dey both ca' get 50 pahcent o' mah Soc Sec if'n i start drawin' at 62 'n 6 munths...so dat mean mah familee dubble up on d' SocSec...
I be nigro rich...hunned dollah beel n' a gold toof...
Why don't those lazy students get off their ass and get a job and pay back their school loans Like I did.
I'm not gonna pay for those slackers to default on their loans....
/sarc
/SARC...you wish.
Everyone is bitching about boomers and their cost to society while it is pretty apparent that they are still working and paying taxes, while our beloved students are coasting and partying on student loans, and given the choice would just as soon stay in school forever than be forced into getting a job and actually paying back the monies borrowed and spent. If we had people working and paying into the system, that we have all been forced to participate in, the numbers would would look significantly better than they do. We are in a hole and refuse to stop digging. We are stifled by the incomprehensible debt we face, but rather than actually stopping the creation of even more debt and getting down to the task of getting this shit off our back, we just dig in deeper and excuse it all, telling ourselves it was already fucked so we might as well get "ours". There is no better path to destruction.
Oldwood, btw, I'm probably just as old as you are.
But do you feel as old as I do?
Some days....
dat right brothah, if'n dey take on minamum 6 units in d'collage, dey nevah gots to pay any back...
Hard to work with your pants around your knees. Even harder to hire one.
I sense some age discrimination when I read that I am an "old man" because I'm over 55. I'm likely in better shape than most guys half my age. So funk you!
Go to HomeLowesDepot. What you will find are thousands of retired military. They hire these folks as they don't have to worry about benefits and wages that are already covered by papa gov. There is where many of your older workers are found. They walk around soaking up the jobs leading Americans to whatever Chinese produced widget they want.Check out the US Post Office. They'll tell you right up front you probably won't get in if your are not military retired or a relative of a retired military person like they did my wife....
This 66 year old worker is stuck in his job due to ZIRP and the inflation they say doesn't exist. And no, I am not drawing SS.... yet. As far as millennials overthrowing old fucks like me, I think people thinking like that should remember just who the real enemy is and just who is the blame. The old fucks are just trying to survive like anyone else.
With the old people you get 40 years of experience from a person desperate enough to work for $10 an hour.
The kids? They're too 'special' to take those 'crummy' jobs.
Completely understandable given there are many here who believe America is corrupt and see no point in participating, which has a lot of truth to it. Unfortunately the adoption of this theme pretty much ensures America's collapse, and as most have never known true hardship, actually wish collapse upon us, yet are completely unprepared for that outcome. They know not of what they wish, and if it only effected them, I would say more power to them. But that is not the reality. This collapse will create a level of destruction not seen in any modern history. The sense of entitlement, which goes far beyond government redistribution, tells these people that they should not have to struggle, to work incredibly hard, to experience a lifestyle that was mainstream 100 years ago. They truly believe there should be no struggle, that life should be as Pelosi lays out, where we are left to our own devices and desires to pursue our dreams without fear of failure, hunger or even disappointment, much less criticism. They are doomed and doom all of us.
And on top of that we have to deal with politicians trying to dominate/destroy us.
Yep. Parasites or Saboteurs. Or both.
So basically the US is just a few steps behind Greece.
Im 67 and still working full time with overtime added. Im also collecting my SS payments and a pension from another company I worked for 28 years. This year I hope to make $80,000 combined and if my health holds up, I'll do the same for at least another year or two. I finally made it to the middle class. LOL! With Interest rates hovering near 0% I can't count on my savings alone. I do have a few mutual funds and a roth but in todays world, retiring at 62 is a pipe dream unless your a School Teacher or work for the Government. I don't have a desk job, Im a welder and I help make boilers of all sizes. Some big as a pickup truck and much heavier. At the plant I work we used to employ 26 and since the recession were down to 16. We haven't hired anyone since the layoffs and I don't see anyone being hired unless I retire. There are two others at the plant a few months older then me. I don't see them leaving anytime soon either. I don't want to be one of those 75 year olds I see now working at a counter at WallMart. Thats when Wallmart actually has a checkout or two open.
On the rare occasions I go to wal mart or other shit houses, if there are long lines at check out... I simply leave. I leave my full cart where it is standing and just walk out the door. Fuck them. If they want my business then they can not abuse me by wasting my time. Mabye that's why the stores are such a mess, because others like me won't stand for being treated like crap.
And, no -- I won't bag my own. That takes away some poor person's job. Fuck them twice.
Who must do the hard things? Those who can.
In today's rapidly decaying economy, those who can consist of older workers who are punctual, provide no workplace entertainment in the form of personal drama, consistently provide high QQS (Quality, Quanity, and Spirit of Service) and have generally agreeable personalities.
Seniority also helped bring about the current numbers. When the layoffs hit in 2008, those with less time on the job were the first to go. They just haven't been called back and never will be.
Baby Boomers are whiny, entitled people that have a simple philosophy: "Gimme it, it's MIIIINE!".
George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8aFDosQBQ
George Carlin was a comedian. He got paid to make people laugh. You're quoting a comedian. You need to start reading at a higher level than comic books.
30 years ago - George Carlin was speaking the truth about how elections are rigged and pointless. He also pointed out that Americans live in a police state run by AND for the elites. he probably also ranted how wars aka mass murder are a business.
Nope, PoasterToaster. There are, generally, two types of baby boomers.
1) The ones who spent their youth
A. going to protest gatherings, from Viet Nam war protests to those staged today,
B. singing about how glorious it is to "love (fuck) the one you're with",
C. bearing bastard children named "Sunshine", "Willow", and "Gaia",
D. Drugging themselves so often that they believe to this day that monsters are trying to eat them alive, and,
2) The ones who
A. learned how to read before they went to first grade,
B. actually know the Bible and Shakespeare,
C. realized that "rote memorization" in school is a needful part of a good education,
D. were given hand tools at an early age and taught to build wooden structures of which they could be proud,
E. fish, hunt, and garden to supplement local food supplies,
F. work as symphony orchestra musicians, policemen, teachers, iron-workers, nurses, farmers, and bus drivers because "It's not about the money.",
G. raised families in modest, 800 square foot houses,
H. internalized altruism, charity, courtesy, accountability, temperance, loyalty, and honesty at an early age,
I. gave generously to the Red Cross, UNICEF, World Vision, and CARE, not to mention their local Churches,
J. have remained married to the same spouse for from 30 to 50+ years.
Members of the first category have landed in insane asylums, died of AIDS, or have become college professors. The second group are still producing, giving, improving, praying, and forgiving those who say that baby boomers are to blame for all society's ills and should all die quickly.
Don't mention it to JWT. He's wholey on board with the rise being attributed to baby boomers retiring.
I wouldn't hire most of these young entitled, endebted and snot nosed graduating brats anyway. If its a kid with a good work ethic willing to fit, tack and get to work. YES HIRED A kid who admits he doesn't know anything but willing to put in some time at a low wage. YES HIRED. Now that the energy sector has plumetted those opportunities are far and few between, but its the smart ones (or just prudent) that saved their money that will SURVIVE, just like those 67 year old boiler makers making good money on overtime. Why so much money? They are SEASONED WELDERS which by definition is "a person who builds sh!T that you can't". They have forgotten much more than many will ever learn.
There are plenty of young people ready and able to work hard. They are in flyover red states mainly. Small towns and rural.
The coastal blue states are so infected with liberal/feminist/gay political bullshit, nobody has their head straight any more. And no -- this is not a red/blue debate point. I will never vote for another dem or repub again.
I bet old guys are top of the suicide list too. Commodus is lying to you, kids. This is your future.
The young people are to busy to work.
The old folks buy American products much more frequently than the young people. The old folks deserve to be hired ahead of those who do not support the American worker.
Did it ever occur to you that the young simply don't have the money to buy domestically made products because they're far more expensive than subsidized imports?
man, the global generational flip is going to be dangers (i'm on the younger side of this). age demographics ar ethe same global. too many boomers. w/o meaningful growth in the world the youth are not getting employed. at the same time advances in medicine and health are keep people working longer. But when they do finally age out there is going to be a massive amount or responsibility going to the youth...who have not been trained or mentored. really it isn't anyone's fault, we are all jut a victim of circumstances here. The next 20 years will be very volatile with all this young, untrained blood in control. we'll be fine, but our learning curve is starting much too late.
What is it that young people want to do...I mean work wise? Do they want to build furniture or houses? Do they want to do landscape work or heavy machine operations? Do they actually want to DO something? Anything? Besides play?
I don't think so.
I think they want a desk, a computer to keep up with facebook, lots of vacation and benefits, and very little responsibility.
They want an education that spoon feeds them the shit they can crap back out on a multiple choice test on command, and an employment recruiter just waiting to snatch them up for a $100k entry level position.
They are going to be very disappointed.
It's not going to cut it.
Ultimately what we get paid for is taking responsibility. Corporations are built upon a bureaucracy that takes that responsibility and buries it under layers of opaque shit, all while claiming to be the paragon of accountability. Small business knows better. Nothing to hide behind. Corporations profit from their scale and ability to suffocate their competition, not out work or out innovate, simply suffocate them. As such, their need for hard working innovators is severely limited but these will be the only positions left once automation takes full control, displacing the mindless drones. The ability to think has ALWAYS been our only real asset, and if we fail to use it, if we simply shit it all away, we will have nothing at all.
Brokeback Amerika... I can't quit yaa.
How much to stick my dick up your ass ?
"The reason is two-fold: with savings rates at zero, Americans who were on the verge of retiring found that the fruit of their labor was worth nothing under ZIRP (and may well be punished under the upcoming NIRP) as their savings (and fixed income investments) generate zero interest income, while young Americans would rather stay in college by the millions funded generously by trillions in Uncle Sam student loans."
Correction, the reason is three-fold: People over 55 are the only generation left that is willing to do the work to find a job...and know how to go about doing so.
Or maybe the younger crowd is smart enough to realize that giving up their lives for minimum amounts of fiat that has no enduring and lasting long-term value is an incredibly poor proposition.
Very possible, and if so, the end of our economy and society as we know it.
What I take from this is that businesses know hiring older people who don't give a shit about facebooking and tweeting all day is more productive than hiring younger people who think facebooking and tweeting all day is what they are paid to do.
Me and my fellow over 55ers will solve all the problems if you do not
destroy us first.
Unlimited clean energy has been available since 1970.
We have all the food you need currently.
Robotics over the next 10 to 20 years will eliminate your need to find a job. (Welfare has already eliminated it, but won't last)
In other words, food, shelter, and energy can be had by all for free.
We still need to leverage some of the old guys to get us the last little
bit of the way there.
Sounds great!
Unfortunately, unless we each OWN those sources of wealth, for that is what energy, food and shelter are, we will be slaves, absolutely dependent upon the generous hand of whoever does OWN us. I don't see how that could go terribly wrong...
Think back...American slaves didn't have to worry about food and shelter or staying warm in winter, all they had to do was do EXACTLY as the MASTER said. And there were many slave owners of the time that said this publicly...that they were the heroes in this as they and only they were caring for these people that they were weak and dependent, and how it would be cruel to set them free to fend for themselves. They castigated the North, for industrialists did none of that. Employees were left to their own devises to find shelter and food with NO guarantee of employment.
The wheel just keeps on turning. Slaves at last, slaves at last! Thank God we are slaves at last!
The numbers are even worse than they look because a good chunk of those 'younger' workers are on H-1B, L-1, etc. visas, rather than being US citizen hires.
This should be no surprise. Older employees are either retired or need a job. They are respectful and they show up for work. They are skilled or learn quickly from past experience. They will work for less just to have something to do that will get them out of the house and away from the missus for a while.
Young people call you by your first name, have every excuse in the book to take off from work, don't know how to do anything. Not all of them for sure but enough to discourage you from taking the time to sort them out.
" Young people call you by your first name"
And that's a bad thing?
What do you wanna be called by?
Lord?
Employers are not stupid. Employers found that old white guys have a better work ethic then the younger less white work Facebook crowd. Sorry for the political incorrectness, but successful employers respond to reality.
It is a good thing 55 and over are getting jobs...since so many younger people depend on their support.