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I'm not as educated as a lot of y'all in these comments, but I can't even get hired for retail positions let alone level 1 tech support jobs.
Zoomers and under are completely fucked.
... everyone who isn't a a deca-millionaire, is fucked.
Entry level positions require 3 years experience, in every field now.
Entirely seriously: If you want a future beyond debt-slavery, you'll have to figure out how to undertake an actual revolution.
Step 1:
Delete Tiktok and all corporate social media.
Step 2:
Organize with like minded individuals via other means, establish mutual aid and support groups.
Step 3:
???
Step 4:
Abolish Profit.
surprisingly sane words
I think that is because they know they can't actually hire everyone, so instead of making older people unemployed and risking them raising their voice about it, they're making the younger people unemployed because they figure they can get away with it more easily.
younger people never know how it was like 20 years in the past. so they don't have anything to compare and they can't say "well, suddenly i'm out of a job" because they never had one in the first place, so it's easier to sell the changing reality to them.
This is the bigger picture:
... we are not all going to survive the great unraveling, even if we had benevolent geniuses in charge.
With corpos and fascists in charge?
Gonna be even worse.
Oh yes i know the W3 model and the Club Of Rome (i think they made that diagram?) in the context of the paper Limits to Growth.
The thing is, it's outdated. That study was done when renewable energy was inconceivable. Things have changed since then. The study was literally done in i think 1970 (first version) and then updates every couple years (significant update was done in 2004).
In fact, until very recently, people couldn't imagine that renewable energy would actually become a big thing. Solar energy somehow became the cheapest source of (technically useful) energy (!) in human history (says the IEA), and they're gonna know it since they're literally an oil and gas analysis organization so if even they admit it, it's not "green propaganda" but solid facts.
This changes the picture dramatically, because under capitalism companies continue to seek the cheapest power possible, and that's simply solar energy today. This leads to an exponential increase in solar power production ever since 2020.
And that changes the picture. The end of the fucking world is off, we're all saved, we have enough energy to sustain our way of life and there's no "heavy culling" when the fossil fuels run out.
The graph I showed was from a recalibration of the W3 model, done in 2023, primary difference being that instead of using a bunch of complex metrics to capture all kinds of pollution... they just went with CO2... but the whole thing has more or less been reworked as a python lib, which has been getting tweaked over the last ~15 years.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442
You may notice that energy production itself is not a primary variable on display in the graph I originally posted.
I hear what you're saying that renewable energy is ... renewable... but, there are tons and tons of natural resources that are not renewable, that are still needed for all kinds of economic processes, which we've already extracted all the stuff that is easy to extract, thus costs rise if you want to keep extracting the stuff that's harder to get to.
Its not just the energy sources. Its ... everything non renewable, every input material resource. Probably the biggest one is industrialized agriculture.
Sure, we could go back to not using the soil as a sponge + nitrate fixing fertilizers, and go back to crop rotation that fixes those nutrients naturally.
... and then 4 billion people can't afford food, and starve to death.
No amount of cheap solar energy solves the problem of agricultural input costs going up and up, and more and more arable land becoming nonarable due to climate change and increasing amounts of increasingly severe adverse weather events and climate driven disasters.
According to Jim Hansen and Paul Beckworth, we're looking at +1.7C by 2027, +2.0C by 2030-32.
We're now in the stage of the climate crisis where half the IPCC identified tipping points start tipping each other and compounding, within roughly the next 5 to 10 years.
We already blew past 1.5C, and the world is now more geopolitically unstable than it was 10 or 20 years ago, not less.
Entire generation: [looks at step 1] ".... nah..."
just out of curiosity: have you considered applying in agriculture?
No I haven't. I just did a quick search on indeed for my area and "agricultural" brings up similar warehouse or sales jobs instead of what I'm assuming your implication was.
yeah i've done two summers of fieldwork and while it might sound boring, it was actually pretty cool :D we were working in the field all day long and it's not boring because you keep moving, chatting, adapting to each specific fruit, it's fun. you should try it.
I applied to like 60 places and the only places I got interviews at were McDonald's and Waffle House at first. Considering what I've heard, I got lucky compared to a lot of people, good luck.
I got a job at Amazon driving a van lmao. They are hiring literally anyone with a license and not on hard drugs. They didn’t test for alcohol or weed.