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OK, Zoomer: You’re the First Human Surplus Generation (newrepublic.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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No, this can't be it, the kids are miserable just because of social media! All we need to do is ban social media and problem solved!

The old promise of entry-level work, where you find a position, learn the ropes, and make your way up, was already fading. Gen Xers and millennials can tell you that. But AI is quickening the unraveling, disrupting how young people find jobs—if they find jobs—and also what they confront when they get there. Gen Z is squinting into a fog, unsure of what’s coming, yet certain that disembodied decision-makers will have a say in it.

It couldn't be that feeling like you have no future makes you depressed and unhappy!

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No, I meant one where the business is owned by all the workers, not one where the owner also does some work.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah that sounds like a worker cooperative (co-op).

[–] perturbedstarstuff@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

All the workers in the company, or all the workers, period?

Internal democracy within entities that still have the same rapacious, anti-social incentives against broader society as traditional businesses won't get you far. At best it might slow down the process of turning those within into faithful heralds of the algorithm of capital.