Strong agreement here. For the net-contributor class, it's absolutely brutal.
1) Incomes are lower than they used to be in the US and Europe than they used to be. Lots of talk about Europe's social saftey net, but less about the lack of well paying jobs (especially compared to the US).
2) Instability of work- our generation does not expect to have one job their whole life. We face being laid off without warning even from very well paying jobs. Unless you are financially independent, this makes it scary to plan for the future.
3) Living far away from parents + family that provide free childcare.
4) Several massive recessions that have severely damaged the professional prospects of the younger generations, to the point where they have significantly less wealth than previous generations did at the same age.
Let me add (3), the editor interface, possibly the most infuriatingly bad software I've had to use (for work) in the last few years. And I am routinely exposed to awful software.
For another pillar of this scary new age, look at the absolute willingness of big tech to censor anything that goes against the message of those in power.
In almost every situation like this, every principal player is an asset of some organization. An intelligence agency would be stupid not to be supporting every side of the conflict.
Honestly, for the stuff I read I totally care more about the opinion of "enthusiastic amateurs", so yeah, honey badger don't care.
The more interesting part of the article is "In 2018, The Writers’ Union of Canada found that, after factoring in inflation, Canadian writers are making 78 percent less than they were in 1998", ie inflation ie a giant motherfucker, and thanks governments everywhere for fucking the younger generations out of a future.
You just said it was “after factoring for inflation”. How does it make sense to say this is due to inflation when you just said inflation was accounted for?
I think the reason it hasn't hit consumers more is because most consumers cannot afford assets.
The best analogy I can make is Ecuador, which although one of the poorest countries in SA has very high prices on average. It was explained to me that this is because government salaries are pegged to a certain rate, and that basically forms the middle class. All the poor cannot buy stuff anyway, so the high prices don't really matter in that sense.
So much bullshit. Penises are literally the favorite thing of many men across human history to draw, in all shapes and sizes, any preferably the most public location. It was even a plot point of a major movie a few years ago.
Executive Outcomes returned this last year, IIRC. They pulled off some extremely crazy thing in Indonesia a long time ago, and still have access to top talent.
1) Incomes are lower than they used to be in the US and Europe than they used to be. Lots of talk about Europe's social saftey net, but less about the lack of well paying jobs (especially compared to the US).
2) Instability of work- our generation does not expect to have one job their whole life. We face being laid off without warning even from very well paying jobs. Unless you are financially independent, this makes it scary to plan for the future.
3) Living far away from parents + family that provide free childcare.
4) Several massive recessions that have severely damaged the professional prospects of the younger generations, to the point where they have significantly less wealth than previous generations did at the same age.