"No One Wants to Work Anymore" Why the Youth are Actually Struggling to Find Work
How America and corporations are hiring differently as a result to political, economic and social changes in young people's values. And, importantly, where is this result heading?
We have all heard the lie “no one wants to work anymore” and are tired of such a statement. From what is being seen by multiple young people’s videos online, they’re frustrated specifically with trying to find work rather than not wanting to work. So what is actually going on? While the theories of, say, jobs wanting to limit their amount of hires to maintain a skeleton crew, jobs putting up ghost positions that they aren’t actually hiring for to look busy, jobs avoiding hiring young people because of a lack of experience, etc. While all these can definitely be playing a part, it is too large of a collective shared frustration young people have for these theories to be at play. There has to be a bigger and more specific phenomenon at play here; and I believe I found it after some deep analytical thought and pattern recognition.
Change in Political and Social Values in Young People
While this isn’t the overall reason, it is the largest specific reason for companies who are center focused on their profits above human decency and thriving wages for their workers. All the previous and further topics will be a part of this nation-wide job crisis, but this particularly is a massive key in the economic relations of young people’s employment struggles.
As of the last 10 years, Millennials and Gen Z have become very pro-union and left leaning in their political, economic and social values.
To further prove this is following the news reports on this topic:
USA Today - Majority of Americans support labor unions, new poll finds. See what else the data shows.
”How does the public feel about labor unions and hot strike summer? More than two-thirds of Americans support unions, according to a recent poll from The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO). That number is even higher for people younger than 30, 88% percent saying they support labor unions.”
BigIssue - Nearly 70% of young people want socialism in Britain
“Up to 78 per cent blame capitalism for Britain’s housing crisis, according to the survey of just under 2,000 young people carried out between February and March this year, while 75 per cent agree that climate change is a “specifically capitalist problem”.”
WSWS - Support for socialism jumps by nearly 10 percent among US youth amid pandemic depression
“Looking at the entire population, support for capitalism declined from 58 percent in 2019 to 55 percent in 2020, while support for socialism among all Americans increased from 36 percent in 2019 to 40 percent in 2020.
An overwhelming majority, 78 percent of all Americans, believe that the divide between the rich and the poor is a serious issue. Of the 68 percent of all Americans who believe that the rich are not paying their fair share in taxes, 49 percent believe that “a complete change of our economic system” is in order.”
So, Suffice to say that the above evidence is enough for every corporation, especially the large and most greedy, to be scared to hire many young people purely off this worry of unionization or class politics coming into the work environment. If corporations like Amazon and many others will go to the extent to dump millions into union crushing efforts; why should we assume they wouldn’t also avoid hiring a lot of young people out of fear that they’d be outnumbered and forced to unionize or face a general strike.
This is why companies are not holding off on hiring older people, despite difficulty to do some of the necessary job positions, because the older generation is not as pro-union or left-leaning. In fact:
SHRM - Companies Renew Efforts to Retain, Hire Older Workers
“Flores said 35 percent of the rehires since 2020 are people over the age of 40 and 20 percent are over the age of 50”
So some companies are moving in that direction of hiring older because of this phenomenon of left-leaning values among mostly younger people who have been abused by capitalism.
Won’t This Increase Homelessness?
Yes, and that is technically part of the plan.
What is the biggest and most profitable industry in the US? It is the Prison Industrial Complex where prisoners make pennies an hour as they are worked daily while incarcerated. Why does that matter? Because as we seen from Florida’s recent law about making it illegal to sleep in the public, which is basically saying it is illegal to be homeless at all as anything can be classified as “public” if it isn’t a private residence. Such a law, even if fought legally, has a chance of being adopted by states that have high density cities; and of course with high density cities is larger number of homeless people.
Formerly homeless people being in prison wasn’t a large number in the past, as we see from 2018, up to 15% of incarcerated people experience homelessness in the year before admission to prison. However with new laws, increase in police budget which will increase militarization, increase in police numbers, and betrayal of the economy against the young who demand their fair share; it is clear a new paradigm is forming where the system is not only trying to suppress progressive pro-worker forces, but is actively trying to use these forces for cheaper labor by force and coercion into illegality so they’ll inevitably be arrested and imprisoned.
The system is forcing its youth through mainstream propaganda, systemic force, and denying opportunities to either adopt 1 of 3 paths. Either accept less and stop complaining as you try to find one of the few jobs that will hire you, get one of the skills we specifically value and can utilize more if you want to be paid more, or go homeless and inevitably die in the streets or get arrested for prison slavery after the law crosses you wrong. This is not a normal decision to be forced to make, and worse it is not humane decision either. This is the coercion and violence that is often talked about by Socialists that is inevitably intertwined in Capitalism.
Where do we Go From Here?
The system and these mega corporations are pushing, specifically the youth, to finally give up individualism and accept collectivism. It is inevitable at this point that the only way we can protect ourselves is to work together to build what will protect us. That is why many of the youth today is moving out into rural societies and homesteading, living off the land, building communes with likeminded people.
The reality is the big cities are too expensive to survive in unless you have a high paying job like banking, law, programming, cyber security, etc. It is also why crime and criminal groups expanded into rural communities about 5-10 years ago for the same reason plus the lack of police surveillance. It is logical; if you don’t make over 80k a year, there is no point to staying in a city that continuously gets more expensive ever year. If you have the funds, correct group of people, and all capabilities for self-sufficiency, self defense and building your own digital infrastructure; you can create a well established commune in a rural community.
But for the youth in the cities who don’t really have a choice because they lack one of those necessary areas, or they need high paying jobs that is specifically in the cities; the only answer is the establishment of large communal neighborhoods within the city. Shared homes where everyone contributes their part to maintain low expenses while pulling in additional funds for themselves and the pooled funds the group needs. Along with shared homes is established bonds with others in the community where likeminded communities can assist each other when needed or get together to build things the community needs. This is where community gardens, libraries, food pantries and the like become necessity and can build, in a sense, a commune within the city.
Remember this Golden Rule: The more self sufficient you make yourselves, the less you’ll need to buy, the more money you’ll have to survive long term or invest in your community members who aim for higher paying jobs or positions of power that can help the commune later on.
It is this method that has made non-white communities survive longest, especially those who come from or their recent family came from third-world nations. Because individualist societies are very rare and in today’s time it is mainly western states that are individualist. Most of the world functions off collectivist methods, because the larger the team, the easier it is to survive and get things done.
Learn homesteading, survivalism, gun handling, become a prepper, train in all methods of war, get your group together, build a digital infrastructure (even if you code it all yourself or don’t), promote your project and goal, promote your beliefs, and build your commune. Be it in or outside the city. The youth must change course if the system is going to change course against us.
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