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read through most of the posts ITT. Don't you get the feeling that we're going through a second industrial revolution? The psychology of there are 1000 people who want this same position, so what makes you special? Now get into the damn bucket with explosives and put them in the mineshaft is back.

These are the trends that got us where we are, in chronological order, but they don't replace each other, they are all going on right now at the same time right now:

Population growth, corporate consolidation, technology making certain jobs unnecessary, sweatshops (for manual and manufacturing jobs), outsourcing (for intellectual and knowledge jobs) and finally automation.

These things are, interestingly enough, things governments have pushed for hard in the past and still try to sell as a good thing.

I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions as to what this means, but I know you're going to reach the same conclusion we all did big companies tell governments what to do, and it was all about squeezing out small companies, individual labor power and the old rules in order to enrich and give power to said big companies

Next time you read a new story going full chicken little about slowing population growth or labor shortages or STEM shortages or any stupid shit like that, remember this is all manipulation

one last thing: when you hear the word competitiveness it sounds good, it sounds avantgarde. What it means is reducing cost. When you hear about the American Competitiveness Act, or when you hear about shit-eating phrases such as making the company more competitive, or the workforce needs to become more competitive what they actually mean is we need to reduce cost and inch closer and closer to third world standards of living, starting with your own salary