On the one hand, I agree that the people mentioned are unambiguously talented. Also, I expect that they would have obtained positions with better pay, etc., if the economy were better.
OTOH, I disagree with the premise that their worth is measured by the job and what job is valued.
I want a filter for synthesis or depth on top level posts. Give them a 1 out of 5 rating so it's easier to avoid the "people I like are good," "people I don't like are bad," and "nothing matters because everyone is doomed," posts.
It's hard to explain to people who weren't in the job market then that companies were legitimately requiring college degrees and multiple years of experience for traditionally entry-level jobs paying under market
I feel like the comical must have master’s degree and 7 y/o exp. for entry level job just sort of became the boilerplate. Next recession (coming soon?) it will be updated to basically same requirements for CEO
It's also amazing how purposeful and coordinated the implementation of these requirements were. All to suppress wages and screw people during an economic crisis.
It was not coordinated, it's just that when you always get a ton of applicants for every opening, you can lower wages and increase requirements. We saw the opposite under Biden where low unemployment created competition for new hires and therefore higher wages and willingness to train
Not saying that it was easy for anyone, but he was finishing high school when the recession hit which was different than the people finishing law school in 08. He’s 33 so a little young to have been truly fucked
i mean, i'm only 3 years older than him and nobody from my 2010 graduating class at Tulane got jobs in their fields - and it was like that until like 2015
I graduated into the dot-com bust/post-9/11 recession and yeah, I and most of the folks I knew in my class were unemployed/underemployed well into the middle of the decade
I was in that exact same boat, it felt like everyone I knew hid out in grad school. Felt like that got a little less intense as time passed, but looking at the charts I can see I was probably wrong
Twice now Trump has inherited a relatively healthy economy after the hard work a Dem administration put in to right the ship after a clusterfuck beyond their control and twice now he's gotten to take credit for it
the second time though he immediately decided to torch the place
Interesting example of how libertarian deregulation can lead to leftwing politicians. In a different universe, AOC might have taken her Economics degree and worked at Bear Stearns.
Also, like Zohran was running to be the mayor of NYC, not for president. He already has a satisfactory level of experience.
The role of the mayor is to just appoint the correct people to various departments. Did people say that Cuomo didn't have enough experience when he ran for governor???
Centrists always role out the experience attack when going after progressives, because shocker, young progressives are inherently going to have less experience because they would have only had several years to build that resume.
Zohran was heavily involved with multiple campaigns prior to his run for Assembly. It's not like he just showed up one day and got elected into the legislature.
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OTOH, I disagree with the premise that their worth is measured by the job and what job is valued.
I wish social media had a feature whereby you had to read a good synthesis take like Matt's here before you could dunk on something seemingly dunkable
Trump lucked out by becoming president just as the economy finally recovered to pre-crash levels.
the second time though he immediately decided to torch the place
The role of the mayor is to just appoint the correct people to various departments. Did people say that Cuomo didn't have enough experience when he ran for governor???