Three changes are making things worse for young people trying to find the first jobs:
The impact of AI is reducing the number of entry level administrative & service jobs;
The shadow of Covid has led to less customer facing service jobs that are either being outsourced abroad or automated (agin via AI);
The hospitality sector, often a place to gain early experience is seeing employment level drop as the sector struggles.
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#workers #unemployment
h/t FT
We have a growing youth & graduate unemployment problem!
and this is a problem in two dimensions:
for young people, youth & early career unemployment has a negative impact on life-time earnings & on subsequent career development;
For society, we are seeing growing cohorts of young people with little basic experience of work & no opportunity to build tacit skills in early employment.
Both these dimensions are storing up problems for the future of workers' lives
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Its because they dismiss the insights of Keynes primarily in my view
@ChrisMayLA6 I do agree about the neglected importance of Keynesianism. But does that go far enough in expiaining the #Starmerites?
They seem to me to be not just intellectually incurious and intellectually lightweight, but in many respects to be anti-intellectual.
Fifty years of Thatcherism produced a steady stream of Conservative intellectual politicians amongst the functionaries. But Starmer's #LINO crew seem to be hostile even to critical thinking.
yes fair comment; sadly the anti-intellectualism in No.10 and surrounding properties is matched by a much wider dismissal of actual analysis across the country
This is because of 10+ years of people claiming that the "tired of experts" crowd have "legitimate grievances".
They do not have legitimate grievances.
You can't fight weaponized ignorance without calling BS on the BS.
@androcat @ChrisMayLA6 They do have legitimate grievances. Some of the grievances are not legitimate, but some are.
People who dismiss all the resentment as unfouhded are simply fuelling the fire.
That's been the mantra for literally a decade, and where has it landed you?
I don't care about the theory. Look at the practice.
Where has it gotten you?
Keir fucking Starmer.
A thatcherite, pro-genocide Labour government.
And a national discourse absolutely teeming with racism.
No, they did not have legitimate grievances.
They're just lumpen proles who are easy to lie to, and who enjoy having someone to HATE rather than looking at the actual legitimate grievances they could be having, like wealth inequality.
Screw that dogma. It didn't work. It's never worked.
Because it was some Blairite gobshite's bright idea, and now it lives rent-free in your collective subconscious.
Mea culpa, @androcat. I do apologise for mistaking you for someone who might be interested in thinking critically. My mistake.
I see that instead you prefer just hurling abuse at the character of people who don't experience the world in the same way as you experience it. I have neither skills nor interest to engage with these torrents of self-righteous psrtisan vitriol, so I'll leave you to it. #Bye, shoutyman!
Re-read what I wrote until you understand it.
If you do not evaluate evidence, you cannot claim to be thinking critically.
Look at where it has gotten you, I challenged.
You did not look. Because you prefer your precious dogma, where the angry gammons are righteous victims.
Which were the grievances involved in Brexit?
It was ignorance.
Ignorance and tabloid propaganda.
What's the grievance involved in the "small boats scare"?
It's racism.
Racism and tabloid propaganda.
All of that is a distraction from any legitimate grievance, such as wealth inequality, corruption, pollution, etc.
So the key thing here is political channelling - the grievances around poverty, inequality & well-being are very real... however, they have been channelled over the last two decades into racism & prejudice partly to divert attention from those we might actually regard as being responsible... certainly there may be racists involved, many of them perhaps, but the underlying issues are much wider & the politics of distraction is working overtime
That's a bit like saying, you're cranky because you're hungry, but it has been channelled into hating Abba.
And now you're camped outside a record store demanding that they remove all the Abba records.
What is your grievance? If anyone were to ask you, you'll say that it's "Abba is awful".
And if some pundit says "Chris has some legitimate grievances", everyone else listening will think "Oh, so Chris is at least somewhat correct in that Abba is awful, and at very least we should not criticize Chris for having a fit about Abba for absolutely no reason".
And that's incorrect. If not even you are aware that all you need is a snack, you cannot be said to have legitimate grievances.
That's what's been going on.
Everyone has been having fits about "small boats" for absolutely no reason.
As a distraction from the actual issues that need to be addressed.
And then it is impossible to address those issues without also calling bullshit on the distractions.
Instead, we see a Labour party that is very worried about small boats and transgendered people, doubling down on those distractions, while chanting "legitimate issues".
It is an incredibly harmful mantra.
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The discourse being twisted by the taker class into various distractions - preventing anyone from tackling the real problems of inequality and oppression?
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