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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Her university has an unwritten rule that students must sign an employment contract or provide proof of internship within one year of graduation; otherwise, they won't receive a diploma.

That's some bullshit

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suspect it’s a case of “shit rolls downhill”.

The central government wants to prevent scam schools that don’t produce employable graduates. As a result, they penalize colleges whose graduates don’t find employment.

Instead of helping their graduates, colleges find it easier to punish them.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Seems to be a classic case of Goodhart's law turned bad.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I mean the way the article is written it literally sounds like bullshit.

"Oh they have this unwritten rule"

Really good journalism. The 14% unemployment is for ages 16-24. For comparison it's 10% in the US.

Neither of which is very meaningful considering how most people are still going to school during that age. This isn't the unemployment for people out of college and graduated. Which would be what the article is talking about. Bad to imply the statistic they used has anything to do with it.

Additionally, I wonder how much of that 4% difference is the 16-17 year olds in high school in America that have to work to support their family.

16-17 year olds being calculated in an unemployment statistic? Really? Am I old as fuck now or are these not children?

I know a lot of us normalized starting a below minimum wage job at 13 like I did. But I would hope others grow up and realize how fucked up that type of exploitation is.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is America, everyone above 14 is meat for the grinder.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

And 14 and under are targets of the pedophiles running our companies and the country.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Don't know how they did the calculations here, but in Norway we have statistics for unemployment that goes down to 16 year olds.

However in those statistics, a person is only considered unemployed if they are not attending school. Our equivalent of high school is not mandatory, so a few people (very few) decide to quit school and begin working at 16. Some further people are high school dropouts that get jobs at 16-19.

So basically: You're counted as unemployed if you're not in a job or education.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do you pretend to pay the bills?

[–] mrbhootiya@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

like you pay $7 to pretend to work

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Seems like the job market is a sinkhole everywhere in the world currently.

I feel for them, but it’s nice to have a communal space to freelance and apply for jobs instead of slogging through it endlessly in isolation.

Would be a nice idea in the US but it would get enshittified and price hiked before I finish typing this sentence.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's really simple. Capitalists are being too greedy and that's slowing everything the fuck down.

We've gained insanely more productivity in the last 50-100 years, but in the last 5-10 years the megawealthy have been getting greedier and greedier.

Don't they fucking realise their money will worthless when societies crumble and the world is on fire? Oh right, they don't.

There honestly worse than crackheads and smackheads.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why aren't they pretending to be on vacation instead?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

This is where people go when they get sick of pretending to be on vacation.

They’re selling escapism from unemployment.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

It sounds kinda wholesome tbh. Although it's a shame they have to pay to be there

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can see the logic, going somewhere with minimal distractions to get shit done, with other people in a similar position around, makes a lot of sense.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

That's how things get started.

[–] chris@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

This is actually a pretty good idea

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

How odd. If it’s the right solution for people, though…