Why hire you when we get better performance from an AI we don't have to pay a salary and health insurance? Don't forget to buy our products! -C-suite

Also, nobody wants to work anymore...

That's why I decided to give up and not go back to college. What's the point?

Why aren't grads syndicalizing‽ 🖕 monopsonies. get together and outcompete them.

Like honestly what are you supposed to do? Those I know are either going total striver and molding themselves to the every whim of a fake ass financialized economy, or giving up. Schemes and scams, etc. College degrees are less of an education than a very expensive job certification telling your HR email job “I am not stupid,” sold to you by a giant real estate company that also hires professors.

It’s not even a question of upward mobility but where you’re supposed to find employment that pays non starvation wages and won’t be squeezed out once you learn it. Niche trades maybe? But what’s the opportunity for advancement there.

Cengage can eat dick