Late Stage Capitalism

one time when I was in college my mom called toward the end of the spring semester and said "if you're not busy you should make a few phone calls and get a job lined up for the summer by the end of the day"

They should be forced to stay in the contest until they earn $10,000.

The generation war, the political war is just to distract us from the fact we are all under assault by a class war from the super rich. If we fight each other, we can't fight the rich.

Blame it on the billionaires, not other generations.

100% why I don't give advice.

Older people refuse to acknowledge that the world has changed and the younger generation is legitimately fucked by no fault of their own.

I don't really care about boomerism any more

make people who believe in late stage capitalism have to survive the low end of it. regardless of who they are

They should also apply for entry level stuff.

Would be better if they had to apply online with an 18-25 year olds resume.

Boomers have the advantage of personal connections that they have built up over the course of a lifetime. Many of them will still be able to find a job "the old fashioned way" just through those connections.

Many still will not. Because job hunting is still garbage. But it's still not a good way to show them reality unless they have a blank slate with 100k in student loan debt.

I'd pay good money to see them going door to door with their résumés, only to be met with the blank gen Z stare of children who don't even know who owns the shop they work at, or why an old man is trying to hand them a scrap of paper with their life story on it.

Stop making this a generational war, boomers aren't the problem. Unrestrained capitalism is.

Phone calls and in person died off in the late 2000s. There was still the occasional HR with public access but it was more: use one of the computers right over there. Nope, keep that resume, input that information at the application station.

By the early 2010s, those were gone. No one knows where the door to HR is now. That knowledge has been lost to all but the few who work there. The phone was also disconnected at that time.

I'm 60. I'm not sure I could get another job using my own advice either.

I am working with several people trying to break into my field and it's almost impossible. Mostly because it's a bit of niche field, and almost everyone in it has decades of experience.

It's considered a second entry profession so most people did something else first. There are now diplomas and certifications for young people interested in the field. As a profession we talk about how to ladder younger people in, but struggle with what entry level looks like. A few years work experience and a professional certification just doesn't stack up in an interview against a few decades of experience.

Yeah, as a millennial I can feel this. Graduated in 2008 from university and couldn't find a single job in my field. Couldn't find a job out of my field. Couldn't even get hired by fucking Taco Bell.

Eventually sold my body for money.

Just walk in ,demand to see the Big Boss, look him in the eye and ask for a job!

That was among the nuggets of whizdum from my Silent Gen parents.

Next, make the Boomer buy a house without using their current assets as a down payment.

My dad had to do it because he was too old at 56 (office job). In 3 years (government support and savings) he could not find anyone who would take him. Eventually he started working small construction jobs (which he enjoys doing) through someone that did work on his house.

So I think there are plenty older people that actually know the difficulty.

The best advice is still the oldest - networking. The current system is meant to filter out all but the only candidate that meets every single qualification perfectly, and the problem is exacerbated by the advice to send out as many applications as possible per day. These days, apps are generated by AI, and reviewed by AI.

If you don't meet the qualifications, don't waste your time, and crowd the field for those who might be qualified. Instead, go to a meeting of professionals from your sector, volunteer for an associated event, join the industry golf league, etc., and get to know the local players in the industry you're targeting. It might take a while, but they are much likelier to hire someone they already know, than some random stranger out of 10,000 resumes.

I'd rather one where we make lawmakers live the average life of their constituents.

Alot of baby boomers do easily get jobs... Because the baby boomers are also the hiring manager

A bigger show would be made of people handing over their parents for social justice like this, based on bullshit they inflict upon their kids. And I mean all of it: jobs, economy, romance, marriage, everything. Lots of people's heads become full of advice that has aged like milk, but are too stubborn to admit that's the case.

Back it up with an intervention style forum and follow-up episodes about the inevitable counseling to follow and I'm in.