Ironically, I think that the population cliff is painful in the short term but positive for individuals in the long term. The people in power freaking out over it are people who want life to be worthless. Historically speaking, times that the population contracted have been times of unprecedented individual rights and workers improving their lot.
I mean I don't think the 20 years of forced abortions, women feeling like they needed to abort female babies since they only had one chance at having a boy was worth it.
If they can replace the contracting population with another third world population they won't get any rights either.
And then they genocide themselves.
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
When there are not unlimited workers, it is easier to get a job.
However, that means incompetents rise because there is no one to displace them.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
What I see is that as it becomes more difficult to get a job, jobs become political. You give jobs to your friends, to your family, to your allies, they're a thing of value you can use to get more power. I see it a lot in the skilled trades. There's virtually no apprenticeships out there, so the few positions are extremely valuable, so this rare and valuable thing is hoarded and traded.
As the worker market gets tighter and tighter, the political crap tends to fall away, and companies start having to hire politically undesirable qualified candidates
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They can't do that, the way laws are designed, since they must make a workplace friendly to diversity.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
They can and they do. Companies want you to think they're just dust in the wind being blown one way or another by the fickle winds of fate, but the fact is they're fully capable of doing whatever they want, and they want to pretend they need diversity because it helps prevent workers from organizing because they're too busy fighting each other.