600 million jobs needed January 30, 2016 | Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 951 |
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mrs. chinaski
The World Bank has an unsettling message for young people around the globe:
Whether you're male or female, live in Tunisia or the U.S., you will struggle to find a job.
Across regions and continents, people 15 to 29 years old are at least twice as likely as adults to be unemployed.
The world will have to create 600 million jobs over the next 10 years, or 5 million a month, just to prevent the situation from getting worse.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-13/if-you-re-young-the-job-outlook-is-grim-no-matter-where-you-live
Bad news is brewing for workers under 29 years old: No matter where you live or what your gender, you're likely to face unemployment.
The countries of the world need to create 600 million jobs over the next decade just to accommodate the young workers who are
entering the workforce, according to a new report from the World Bank, the International Labor Organization and other groups.
It's a crisis that's already here, given that one-third of the world's 1.8 billion young adults are neither working nor getting education or training, the study said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wanted-jobs-for-600-million-young-people/
I don't believe it. We need mooore chyldrun!
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twocents
I always think of the situation of people before the great plague those many centuries before. At the end, there was such a shortage of skilled labor that they could just about name their own price. Out of these grew the guilds and the renaissance.
I do not think the future is rosy at all.
Of course, they could start euthanizing anyone over 60.
Re: 600 million jobs needed February 01, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 7,756 |
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twocents
I always think of the situation of people before the great plague those many centuries before. At the end, there was such a shortage of skilled labor that they could just about name their own price. Out of these grew the guilds and the renaissance.
I do not think the future is rosy at all.
Of course, they could start euthanizing anyone over 60.
I envision a very dystopian future. "Peak everything" in terms of resources, severe overpopulation, and an economy that just won't need that many people to do most of the work.
I think the Bible thumpers are going to end up flabbergasted when God doesn't "provide," and the techno-narcissists are going to be very disappointed in the diminishing returns that technology provides for the human standard of living.
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Re: 600 million jobs needed February 02, 2016 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,109 |
I think the bibble-thumpers will always be flabbergasted as they attempt to use stone age mythology to support laws that will actually disadvantage themselves into wage slavery, and eventually into actual slavery from birth. Trying to say that morals and good works actually come from that giant fairytale? Hilarious! Nope, as with all history (although the bibble is far more prehistorical fiction than history in any way, shape, or form), it was written by the victors, and its adherents can't even tell it's meant to subjugate all of them!Quote
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twocents
I always think of the situation of people before the great plague those many centuries before. At the end, there was such a shortage of skilled labor that they could just about name their own price. Out of these grew the guilds and the renaissance.
I do not think the future is rosy at all.
Of course, they could start euthanizing anyone over 60.
I envision a very dystopian future. "Peak everything" in terms of resources, severe overpopulation, and an economy that just won't need that many people to do most of the work.
I think the Bible thumpers are going to end up flabbergasted when God doesn't "provide," and the techno-narcissists are going to be very disappointed in the diminishing returns that technology provides for the human standard of living.
Re: 600 million jobs needed February 02, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 510 |
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Miss_Hannigan
I know lots of you can relate to what I have to say - employers are tightening their belts more and more every year. When I started working there were bonuses, holiday parties, extensive time off, generously-subsidized healthcare, pensions and even subsidized health club memberships, phone plans and cafeteria food. Over two decades I've seen all of these vanish. Soon you'll have to bring your own toilet paper to work, if you can find a job. But yeah, let's keep cranking out more babies, that's a great solution.
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Presto
I think the bibble-thumpers will always be flabbergasted as they attempt to use stone age mythology to support laws that will actually disadvantage themselves into wage slavery, and eventually into actual slavery from birth. Trying to say that morals and good works actually come from that giant fairytale? Hilarious! Nope, as with all history (although the bibble is far more prehistorical fiction than history in any way, shape, or form), it was written by the victors, and its adherents can't even tell it's meant to subjugate all of them!
Re: 600 million jobs needed February 02, 2016 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 619 |
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suncard
Since it keeps getting brought up, the Biblical point of view would be that this sort of thing is obviously immoral, and God can't be blamed for those who shoot themselves in the foot. He clearly wants nothing to do with such people. As I often say regarding morality, "Under no circumstance was anyone to act stupid, and expect a reward." After all, it's well known that modern business owners are typically corrupt, as with politicians, and other figures of any power, or authority. It's expected, and placated in society: insurance fraud, piracy, store theft, tax evasion, all designed to stick it to "the man"; the corrupt, evil, jerk sitting high in his leather chair, aware and unbothered by the cries of the unfortunate below.
The very image of today's mother isn't a sweet figure, glowing with gentle wisdom, who will see to it that her kids are taken care of and brought up virtuously. It's, "I'M MAMA BEAR. I GET WHAT I WANT. RAAWWRR!!" A bear, you say? Why, Biblically, that was one of Satan's attributes! Yet, you call yourself "good", for your demands and demeanor? Where exactly do you think you're leading our future? No wonder your children are brats.
The "Christian" God frequently mentioned has no business in a society like this one. It wouldn't be fair to blame him for anything, for this isn't what he wanted and designed at all.
Of course, I believe many here are atheists. But, with other's worldviews, we must give credit where credit is due, mustn't we?
Re: 600 million jobs needed February 02, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,308 |
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Christhead
This is just a symptom of a much larger problem. Too many humans, not enough resources. It applies to every aspect of our lives, from jobs where employees are seen as expendable to our overcrowded and underfunded schools. It blows my mind that the majority of our species doesn't understand or care that this is all our doing. Yes, let's keep having more babies, even though every new screaming mouth means a drop in the quality of life for every other person is existence.
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StudioFiftyFour
Excellent points, Christhead. And let me point out that guys like Bill Gates, and other philanthropists, are doing a lot of work in the Developing Nations.
Are they doing it because they really care about the people there? Or are they simply attempting to keep the world population overinflated in order to drive wages down?
I don't know either way, but I think the question should be asked.
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yurble
The Gates foundation was recently accused of promoting private market solutions / Capitalist worldview and doing more harm than good in its work to address disease. If nothing else, it is the new face of colonialism. That money isn't free, it comes with strings attached, and it is no surprise to me if part of the mission is to promote the status quo which led to that creation of wealth in the first place. Even if some people genuinely believe they're doing good, they can't see beyond their own system and values and consider alternate approaches.
So yes, it's certainly been alleged that there's far more to this than altruism.
Re: 600 million jobs needed February 03, 2016 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 3,978 |
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Commercials continue to sell the "ideal" of famblee, always living the upper-middle class lifestyle.
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mrs. chinaski
@ Mr. Neptune: those jobs belong to the service industry. Service industry is necessary but it's not the real deal.
It's nothing what will bring things forward.
It's like you will cut my hair, I will cut your hair - we will keep each other busy but nothing significant will come
out of it
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