MatureDJ
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I was reading this, and it got me thinking:
Or maybe this is just wishful thinking, and the brutal reality is that ... it's over.
The 'supply-and-demand model of labor markets is fundamentally broken,' and that's why you're not getting a pay raise anytime soon
Working is no longer a guaranteed way of getting ahead. Instead, it may keep you poor. You cannot get rich working for Uber. You cannot get rich working for Deliveroo.
www.businessinsider.com
It would seem that the old paradigm of having to marry a good provider - which has been cast to the side, at least by women in their sexual prime - could come back in the form of the relatively few men that hold time a good full-time job being looked upon as the prudent choice.Unemployment is low because a massive number of new jobs today are part-time gig-economy jobs. Part-time "underemployment" has, statistically replaced the mass unemployment we remember from the 1980s. As Johnson says: "A majority of people who are classified as poor now live in a household where someone is in work.
Or maybe this is just wishful thinking, and the brutal reality is that ... it's over.