The difference is your generation could walk into a business with a handshake and actually get trained into a career. Today people send out hundreds of applications through automated systems that reject them before a human even reads them.
Post-COVID, the job market got flooded with layoffs, companies cutting hours, fake job listings, and businesses demanding ‘entry level’ workers with 3 to 5 years experience. Full-time positions have been replaced with casual, contract and gig work so companies can avoid paying benefits and job security. Rent, groceries and housing prices exploded while wages barely moved.
I assume you also came from a period where one income could realistically support a household, buy a home and build savings. People today are competing in a globalized, hyper-competitive economy where degrees are common, housing is absurdly expensive, and corporations openly run skeleton crews to maximize profit.
People aren’t ‘whining’ because life is hard. They’re pointing out that the economic conditions are objectively worse for workers than they were decades ago. Struggling in a broken system.
@itzaceofspades@MirahDVR I’ve been slandering you in the comments for like- 2 months now?
I don’t even got anything in the engine anymore- this is just a smash, I can’t critique it. Just simply; would.