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Yeah, I have an Aunt who went through a pretty hard time after being laid off in the GFC, less materially than psychologically. She's never been quite the same since. Clings to her current job like a drowning man.

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Genuine problem for democracy, unemployment harms a small number of people massively and inflation harms a lot of people a little but the vote is not weighted by impact.

I think the misantrhopy of tech ceos and their pitch for AI is kind of an (ultimate) symptom of this.

Grateful for my first preceptor who viewed her job as a means to an end to fund owning horses. I was scandalized, how could you not love what you do but after 15 years she was right. It's an exchange of labor to fund the person you are outside of work. Happiest I've ever been since realizing that.

The other countries that chose austerity have the same problems with an insurgent right wing *and* the economy sucks. And they did it without a charismatic guy that was on the TV all the time and a fawning media; they're voting hard right guys with rotten-coleslaw appeal.

Millennials, unlike Boomers and to a lesser extent Gen X, have never inhabited a world where your job was something you could count on as long as you didn’t royally fuck up.