Young people are falling behind, but not because of AI
X08
Add to this the global housing crisis, the climate crisis and the polarization (men vs women, left vs right etc.) in all facets of life, things do become quite bleak. It's hard willing to invest your time, effort and money into something that doesn't seem all that rewarding. And birth rates declining is a direct result from all of this.
Sunbutt23
My company is doing this: hiring principal level employees. It makes no sense to me — get an entry level and train them up on what you need. Way cheaper and gives a way higher return on investment. I’ve been yelling at my manager to stop trying to hire senior folks and start hiring entry level.
qwed113
I'm wondering how as a society we can heal from all of the issues you listed, if at all. I hate to be a doomer, but it genuinely feels like too many different things to solve while the amount of problems grow more intense each day. I suppose the feeling I have is shared across many companies and young people too.
DynamoSunshirt
I've seen this so many times, too. It's even worse with the upper-level management class, who have become completely decoupled from actual work. There's a whole community of creeps who cycle from startup to startup, mismanaging the hell out of product, marketing, even engineering groups at the C and VP level. All they have to do is pretend to have vague expertise and clueless startups will give them months or even years of runway. And they of course have no respect for the underlying culture of the company, let alone the product or any hard-learned lessons from the early years.
myrrh
...historically, the answer has always been fresh horizons for a new generation; they never solve the prior generations' problems so much as leave them behind to occupy unburdened new spaces...
...i use horizons and spaces metaphorically: the temporary autonomous zone could be physical lands, polities, societies, technologies, arts, markets, wherever novel social intercourse sows a new commerce free of zero-sum rent-seeking, at least for a little while...
...from one perspective, those old problems dies with the old generations, but from another they always evolve to colonise unspoiled spaces until a fresh horizon emerges elsewhere, waves of innovation, exploitation, and atrophy washing across the sea of civilisation...
X08
Add to this the global housing crisis, the climate crisis and the polarization (men vs women, left vs right etc.) in all facets of life, things do become quite bleak. It's hard willing to invest your time, effort and money into something that doesn't seem all that rewarding. And birth rates declining is a direct result from all of this.
Sunbutt23
My company is doing this: hiring principal level employees. It makes no sense to me — get an entry level and train them up on what you need. Way cheaper and gives a way higher return on investment. I’ve been yelling at my manager to stop trying to hire senior folks and start hiring entry level.
qwed113
I'm wondering how as a society we can heal from all of the issues you listed, if at all. I hate to be a doomer, but it genuinely feels like too many different things to solve while the amount of problems grow more intense each day. I suppose the feeling I have is shared across many companies and young people too.
DynamoSunshirt
I've seen this so many times, too. It's even worse with the upper-level management class, who have become completely decoupled from actual work. There's a whole community of creeps who cycle from startup to startup, mismanaging the hell out of product, marketing, even engineering groups at the C and VP level. All they have to do is pretend to have vague expertise and clueless startups will give them months or even years of runway. And they of course have no respect for the underlying culture of the company, let alone the product or any hard-learned lessons from the early years.
myrrh
...historically, the answer has always been fresh horizons for a new generation; they never solve the prior generations' problems so much as leave them behind to occupy unburdened new spaces...
...i use horizons and spaces metaphorically: the temporary autonomous zone could be physical lands, polities, societies, technologies, arts, markets, wherever novel social intercourse sows a new commerce free of zero-sum rent-seeking, at least for a little while...
...from one perspective, those old problems dies with the old generations, but from another they always evolve to colonise unspoiled spaces until a fresh horizon emerges elsewhere, waves of innovation, exploitation, and atrophy washing across the sea of civilisation...
Add to this the global housing crisis, the climate crisis and the polarization (men vs women, left vs right etc.) in all facets of life, things do become quite bleak. It's hard willing to invest your time, effort and money into something that doesn't seem all that rewarding. And birth rates declining is a direct result from all of this.
My company is doing this: hiring principal level employees. It makes no sense to me — get an entry level and train them up on what you need. Way cheaper and gives a way higher return on investment. I’ve been yelling at my manager to stop trying to hire senior folks and start hiring entry level.
I'm wondering how as a society we can heal from all of the issues you listed, if at all. I hate to be a doomer, but it genuinely feels like too many different things to solve while the amount of problems grow more intense each day. I suppose the feeling I have is shared across many companies and young people too.
I've seen this so many times, too. It's even worse with the upper-level management class, who have become completely decoupled from actual work. There's a whole community of creeps who cycle from startup to startup, mismanaging the hell out of product, marketing, even engineering groups at the C and VP level. All they have to do is pretend to have vague expertise and clueless startups will give them months or even years of runway. And they of course have no respect for the underlying culture of the company, let alone the product or any hard-learned lessons from the early years.
...historically, the answer has always been fresh horizons for a new generation; they never solve the prior generations' problems so much as leave them behind to occupy unburdened new spaces...
...i use horizons and spaces metaphorically: the temporary autonomous zone could be physical lands, polities, societies, technologies, arts, markets, wherever novel social intercourse sows a new commerce free of zero-sum rent-seeking, at least for a little while...
...from one perspective, those old problems dies with the old generations, but from another they always evolve to colonise unspoiled spaces until a fresh horizon emerges elsewhere, waves of innovation, exploitation, and atrophy washing across the sea of civilisation...
Add to this the global housing crisis, the climate crisis and the polarization (men vs women, left vs right etc.) in all facets of life, things do become quite bleak. It's hard willing to invest your time, effort and money into something that doesn't seem all that rewarding. And birth rates declining is a direct result from all of this.
My company is doing this: hiring principal level employees. It makes no sense to me — get an entry level and train them up on what you need. Way cheaper and gives a way higher return on investment. I’ve been yelling at my manager to stop trying to hire senior folks and start hiring entry level.
I'm wondering how as a society we can heal from all of the issues you listed, if at all. I hate to be a doomer, but it genuinely feels like too many different things to solve while the amount of problems grow more intense each day. I suppose the feeling I have is shared across many companies and young people too.
I've seen this so many times, too. It's even worse with the upper-level management class, who have become completely decoupled from actual work. There's a whole community of creeps who cycle from startup to startup, mismanaging the hell out of product, marketing, even engineering groups at the C and VP level. All they have to do is pretend to have vague expertise and clueless startups will give them months or even years of runway. And they of course have no respect for the underlying culture of the company, let alone the product or any hard-learned lessons from the early years.
...historically, the answer has always been fresh horizons for a new generation; they never solve the prior generations' problems so much as leave them behind to occupy unburdened new spaces...
...i use horizons and spaces metaphorically: the temporary autonomous zone could be physical lands, polities, societies, technologies, arts, markets, wherever novel social intercourse sows a new commerce free of zero-sum rent-seeking, at least for a little while...
...from one perspective, those old problems dies with the old generations, but from another they always evolve to colonise unspoiled spaces until a fresh horizon emerges elsewhere, waves of innovation, exploitation, and atrophy washing across the sea of civilisation...