Why aren’t young people working?

[@timgolton]

Work your arse off and end up poor, or stay at home and do your own projects, play videogames and end up poor. Which is gen z going to pick?

[@davidmiles9016]

The solution is to grasp where it is worth working your arse off, and it sure isn’t uni!

[@yothiga]

If you can stay at home and play video games and still not homeless. You are privileged af.

[@verzeda]

​@@davidmiles9016 right but the jobs that pay are boring as shit, and also if everyone did those the value of their labour would go down. The problem is interesting jobs that people want to do are controlled by the rich elite rather than given to people with good university degrees and working potential.

[@davidmiles9016]

@@verzeda welcome to the real world, there are lots of boring jobs that need doing, that’s life, so it makes sense to get one that pays well rather than get in vast debt and end up in Starbucks

[@paulsara9694]

On mum and dad's ticket or welfare?

[@michaelschiemer3]

A job honestly doesn’t gives you the time, space and opportunity to chase your dreams and achieve your goals. From personal experience i can tell you working a serious job is modern day slavery. they pay you a small amount for doing a significant amount of work and promises you promotion. Best advice make investments and take calculated risks that would guarantee your success.

[@Dantursi1]

This is really not as difficult as many people presume it to be. It requires a certain level of diligence, no doubt, which is something ordinary investors lack, and so a financial advisor often comes in very handy. That is how people are able to make such huge profits in the market.

[@derrickholfman2]

The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment

[@Olsontim21]

@@derrickholfman2 Could you kindly elaborate on the advisor's background and qualifications?

[@derrickholfman2]

I have worked with a few financial advisors before now but i ultimately settled for 'Annette Christine Conte'. She is SEC regulated and licensed in US. You can easily look her up

[@Olsontim21]

I am going to look her up, I have about $81k i want to start with, might be small but it's better than nothing though. Since the 08 crash is playing out again.

[@chriswills9437]

Unaffordable education, unaffordable housing, collapsing healthcare, insecure, poorly paid work and you may soon lose your human rights....I just cant imagine why so many young people have given up. Oh and no or a poor pension likely too.

[@alanpatten468]

Agreed. I am 65 and would not want to be starting out now. The whole world of work and indeed world itself as has been documented here has gone crazy. Where is the joy in being alive?

[@markshirley01]

Agreed Im a 64 year old graphic designer that has pretty much morphed into a content creator. My world always has been exciting, but I don't know if Id want to start out again. I genuinely feel sorry for young people today.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

I am 55 and can't think of anything worse than having to start out now, even though that would mean being young again it still isn't worth it, that is how bad things are.

[@jim-es8qk]

Education is free until you're 18. Health care is free even if you've contributed nothing, and an entire stock of cheap housing exists!!

[@abletoon]

Don't forget the ever increasing threat of WW3 kicking off in the middle east, climate change and the rise of AI!

[@thomaslusk7621]

Ungainful employment , I'm 64 and don't blame the young for telling these super rich to go to hell.

[@lets_discuss5352]

The US style capitalist system is designed to push wealth up the chain and work down the chain. Remember, the employee is a human resource (like you have a mechanical resource like a lathe machine on the manufacturing floor) that is put under a cost center, and costs are to be reduced ... = have less people or have people but make them work more to increase throughput and profits for every dollar / pound of fixed cost. We have switched from the ancient landowners and laborers to the new type of landlords (the corporations + the 1% rich who control most of the economy) and their laborers ( you and me) who are resources that need to be used and discarded. The old European symbiotic systems between corporations and workers is now blacklisted as socialist and needs to be discarded for free-market capitalism, we're told.

[@alexanderde-sowah857]

The super-rich were once young. They chose to work hard. You can hate them for all you want, but you can't have their lives.

[@bradwatson8763]

@@alexanderde-sowah857 The super rich only got there by using other people’s efforts and energy. We all woke up, and you’re all going to go bankrupt because you screwed the people over time and time again. & we have taught our children to no longer be your slaves!

[@Amrit_jha299]

​@@alexanderde-sowah857Everyone works hard, but not every one gets rich. 2nd point 👉 you don't get the right to exploit people when you become rich. 3. We would surely hate those riches who are enjoying on our hard work

[@a.tartist]

​@@alexanderde-sowah857lol, for fact, labor workers work much harder than the rich people, the deferrence is that workers don't exploit their bosses till the last drop of juice like rich people do to their stuff!!!

[@theflyingscott1]

It’s an easy question to answer and I’m not a young person. Young people will never own a home in their lives in the UK, let alone be able to buy a car brand new at the rate in which prices are rising. Where is the incentive to work nowadays? If you are 21 years of age and realized you would never own a home because house prices are quickly reaching 10 or 11 times the average UK salary, why would you even bother? The only reason old geezers are worried about this is because they know there is nobody to fund their pensions moving forward. The Ponzi scheme is coming to an end.

[@sidewindersid4180]

Well said.

[@wind.del.change]

you are one of the few people who can connect low employment with pension funding. most people dont understand how the two are connected.

[@chrisburn7178]

​@@wind.del.changeYes exactly. It's a common misconception that the pension money the older generation paid in is the money they'll take at retirement, when in reality it's the money contributed by the young working at that time.

[@John_Smith100]

When you look at the world thru the lens of Ponzi investments and money laundering, it makes a whole lot more sense.

[@Gazr965]

That is partly due to less production but higher wages expected, I see a lot on their bloody phone in the work place, ciggy breaks and stood chatting etc, I used to be paid per hour and was expected to work that hour, a company is lucky if they get 40 mins work out of an hour, seen it, also seen firms move out of bone idle UK too!.

[@timwoodger7896]

Sht wages and no future? Years ago young people couldn’t wait to leave home and start a family but who can afford to leave home now let alone raise a family of their own. It’s no wonder mental health issues are on the rise amongst the young.

[@davideyres955]

Earning 5 times what I was when I started and paying no income tax at all on half of that money. You think that’s shit wages? Unfortunately people expect that they are going to walk into high paying jobs and that’s not the way the world works especially with the poor schooling most of the youth has received. Being treated poorly by employers is something that has gone on for a very long time. The times of jobs for life and employer loyalty have gone and it’s no surprise that people don’t want to give their loyalty to a company when they could find themselves discarded in 6 months time. We also have a culture of benefits available for people to play the system and that being too easy to manipulate to giving you considerable financial advantages over working. We need employers having influence on what skills are taught in school so that they get a workforce that is already equipped with the skills they need rather than having to invest in training youth hires with basic skills they should already have in top of the job skills they need to make them profitable hires. Once employed some employee loyalty to their their staff is required as is adequate reward for their work. Paying CEOs names of times what they pay their entry level staff isn’t working and career progression with associated salary improvements is vital.

[@alien4422]

The rich have got too greedy.

[@frankshailes3205]

Still, if they didn't spend so much on avocado toast and overpriced brown water (mochachocachinos) they could afford a house, apparently...

[@StupidIsTheNorm]

I bought 4 houses on minimum wage. You don’t need a lot of money, you just have to understand money. No skills. No qualifications. Plus, I would recommend you live with your parents as long as you can. You’ll never have more disposable income and fewer bills. Use the time and the money wisely.

[@richardsandy6080]

@@StupidIsTheNorm Key question is, when did you do that, and where are the houses?

[@JamieW-o7b]

In a slave economy there is no real reward for working!

[@paulsara9694]

There is it's called eating.

[@karlstrauss2330]

Corporate feudalism

[@ciaranmac8689]

@@paulsara9694wind your neck in

[@foreignwarren7361]

Agreed ​@@paulsara9694

[@gaving7825]

​@@paulsara9694 True, but there is also a difference between "living" and "surviving". Work could pay us in stale bread and half gallons of milk instead of money, it would be an objective downgrade. People require more things than food to truly get the most out of life, food is the bare minimum

[@Sailing_Antrice]

They are depressed because they have no future in the UK sky high rents along with sky high education costs and shit wages. The UK is utterly broken.

[@alexdavis1541]

Yet they still come. Wonder how that works?

[@colincampbell4261]

​@@alexdavis1541are you talking in code, jimmy?

[@alexdavis1541]

@@colincampbell4261 One that you evidently understand

[@Redf322]

@@alexdavis1541if there were no migrants this problem would still exist. Your energy is being diverted.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

@@Redf322 The current problems are pretty much down to government inflating our GDP using immigrants, this has reduced access to housing, put unsustrainable stress on services and infrastructure and created massive social problems. It was a ruinous short termist strategy that has ultimately ruined the country.

[@tzimisce1753]

I sent 218 CVs and got no job. I've got 2 years of experience, a small network, a STEM degree. There's no way forward, we're forced to sit and wait for years, and the only thing we can do now is collect social security, play video games, watch movies, eat, sleep, work out etc.

[@honkhonk8009]

Dont worry, your local leftist party is hard at work sending your jobs to India/China to lower operating costs for the wealthy elite! But dont worry. Their for the people!

[@CallMeDental]

Yeah, this is an underrated point. It's not like young people haven't tried. They got a valuable degree, got some internships, networked with their professors in college, and their inbox still has cobwebs. Because _so many_ young people are doing this.

[@DeadCat-42]

STEM are useless degrees. My engineering degree is in a landfill.

[@Cauldron6]

Richard, thank you for your understanding of how bad things are for younger gen. I’m a millennial and things are so tough, so it really helps to see older gens look at this from a place of empathy and support.

[@daveduvergier3412]

A friend the other day told me that his 20 y.o. son, super-keen to work, has made something like 40 job applications and in most cases has not even received the courtesy of a rejection message. He is inevitably becoming disillusioned with the whole process.

[@skyblazeeterno]

Yes it's it's a shitstorm for job applications at ANY age

[@skasteve6528]

That's just plain rude. When I was a manager, everyone rejected at the application stage, got a standard letter. Everyone I interviewed, got a phone call from me personally.

[@andrewmorton7482]

Know the situation well. I saw it with my own son. In an era when form e-mails can be created and sent with the push of a button failure to send even an acknowledgement is unforgivably discourteous and contemptuous

[@swojnowski453]

40 job applications is nothing. People send 1200 and get little to no answer. It is better to move to a country and place where they need you.

[@mukeshjobanputra6721]

​@swojnowski453 well said, unfortunately this now seems to be the nor. It usually helps to register with an employment agency for temporary work and gain experience.

[@shanecle]

Landlordism and not having affordable housing is a big one.

[@tricky1992000]

I think rory sutherlands explanation is much more correct on this matter. People max out their borrowings and bid the price up. The biggest raises in house prices have been when banks have been allowing loans at 4 and 5 times earnings and super long mortgages.

[@fanfeck2844]

When the BoE prints money to give handouts, that money has to go somewhere, and that’s usually assets

[@chriswills9437]

4.8 million BTLs

[@shanecle]

@@tricky1992000 I reckon that there should be some kind of limit or rule on how many houses someone can own. Too many people see a house as an “investment opportunity” as opposed to somewhere to live and raise a family in.

[@alexdavis1541]

@@fanfeck2844 That's right. Check out the major rise in stock market indices across the world from about May 2020 to late 2021. How can listed company values have risen when they were supposed to be in lockdown and therefore unproductive? The answer is that central banks everywhere were printing pretend money (QE) and this triggered exuberance in the stock market. It indeed had to go somewhere. Never mind anything else, QE also ended up amounting to a transfer of wealth to those already wealthy. Yet the people who lost out still support the lockdowns and the money printing frenzy that accompanied them

[@Midland_Wolf_71]

What I hear in speaking to young people is that there simply isn't much point. The inequality that has grown to extremely damaging levels in the UK means for those of average means/backgrounds they simply cannot even see a way of renting, let alone buying anything. The GB economy has simply priced too many people out of having any kind of lives. They live at home until their mid thirties and get used to it, whereas we moved out post Uni or in my case at 17...Its not achievable now for many. The UK is a poisonous little island, owned by THIEVES, administered by FRAUDS and facilitated by LIARS....... and then they wonder why no-one is "patriotic" or wants to fight for the crown.

[@Ayeright.]

We'll said. And your last paragraph sums up the UK brilliantly.

[@jmshrrsn]

And let’s not forget the role of legacy media in all of this. Outfits like The Daily Mail and GB News - even the BBC - perpetuating this nonsense by vomiting out the narrative being forced upon us by neoliberals, including, I’m sad to say, the current government. Look at the EU and marvel at its continued progression. In contrast, we’ve become - and remain - a backward, regressive little nation, that thinks by being like America, we’re somehow going to rule the world again. It’s pathetic. Young people aren’t buying this narrative however (thank god) but they’re paralysed in acting because the system has them right where it wants them. Talk about Orwell’s warning to mankind.

[@cjthebeesknees]

Parasites calling the working class parasites.

[@stephen2203]

The young have been let down by the education process. This is only the fault of the government who stipulate what is to be taught. The majority of parents only acquire the missing useful knowledge by the time they are no-longer parents and it is too late to get their children to unlearn things which have been taught from infancy.

[@danw5760]

It is precisely people like you that causes their predicament. You're obviously hideous

[@Ikbeneengeit]

How society treats its most vulnerable says a lot. We choose to give 18 year olds crushing debt, unaffordable housing, dehumanizing jobs.

[@planlosubertroffen2282]

its called "Future Investment" *ironie off*

[@soredon]

i’m happy you brought up autistic people because we are suffering pretty badly. 80% of all autistic people don’t even work in the first place! it’s worse now because of how job searching is nowadays. it’s a full time job within itself. you have to stare at a screen for hours a day doing pointless personality tests (which is hell for autistic people) only to not get contacted anyway because your resume got denied by AI. it’s even worse for those of us with rejection sensitivity. interviewing is horrible aswell because you are supposed to lie constantly. a lot of us don’t know when to lie…or what is acceptable to say. but we know when we are honest, we get denied. i would work if i could, but no one gives me a chance. yet every adult still thinks it’s all my fault anyway? as if i can force people to hire me. i always think about how just 50 years ago they were chaining autistic kids up to ACs in mental facilities, now they wanna blame/demonize us for not “trying hard enough” to assimilate and become machines for a society that treated us like we were less than human? i know that i am so much more than my employment status, but no one else feels that way…. anyway! i appreciate this video a lot, since older people don’t usually listen to us when we try to explain. ^^

[@soredon]

i was only halfway through while writing this XD i hate when i comment stuff that is already said in the video lol

[@marijo1951]

A few years ago, the daughter of a former colleague applied for a part-time job in a greetings card shop. The 2-day recruitment event included two written essays, three group discussions, an IQ test and two role playing episodes. She didn't get the job and felt pretty demoralised. A couple of years ago that particular chain of shops closed down.

[@theunknown9437]

I'm not surprised.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

Karma is real

[@silky2204]

Good.

[@visionaryman3548]

That right there is a corporate HR team creating BS to justify its existence, and a senior leadership team that lets it happen. This is why it died.

[@Rockerlady]

Ridiculous what is required for a low paying job. Some even want reference letters for entry-level positions.

[@colincampbell4261]

Work all week and give half your wage to a Landlord to help him buy the home you are renting. Disgusting.

[@ChristineMurphy-gs2fc]

Blame the councils who took all the money from the sell off of council houses and didn’t replace the council house stock. They were always good houses where young couples could start their married lives and start a family. They then replaced these with starter homes which cost a fortune weren’t big enough to swing a cat and when they started a family (the time they could least afford it ) they had to move because the houses weren’t big enough. No thought went into it at all.

[@Redf322]

@@ChristineMurphy-gs2fcthey were not allowed to use the money for rebuilds. They had to use it to replace the funding hole left by Tory government.. Please get your facts straight.

[@peterensinger1770]

The right to buy should have never happened this has resulted in a massive reduction in available social housing. In my area the majority of the council houses bought through the right to buy scheme are now in the hands of greedy private landlords who charge extortionate rents for insecure homes where the tenant can be told to leave at a moments notice at the whim of the landlord!!!

[@tonypacke6954]

@@peterensinger1770 100% correct, another brilliant idea from the Thatcher era. Probably one of the worst Prime Ministers we've ever had, although I think Starmer will be running a close second!

[@tonivaripati5951]

Not really disgusting to most young people they want massive million pound loans to buy property just like their Mummys and Daddies ! and of course The Landlord.

[@sharonanderson5794]

As a registered nurse looking after patients with chronic skin conditions … I have noticed for the last 5 years a general increase in patients between 18 and 30 significant flare of their skin condition due to stress and lifestyle anxiety.

[@languso13]

Social media does that.

[@VerminaeSupremacy]

@@languso13 does social media give you psoriasis or atopic eczema?

[@chrisvaughn5960]

​@VerminaeSupremacy yes!

[@Triadistic]

Unemployment is much higher than the official numbers.

[@krissyr3393]

Apparently one hour paid work in last month (or was it 3 mths?) constitutes "employed".

[@SteveStevens-sp7ly]

a lot of people simply give up after a long search, then drop out of the job center services as they are treated like crap.

[@ahappyfrenchtoast2669]

yes , and what i understand it's because those who have given up looking for work arent even counted. it's so dumb when i think about how official figures downsize the reality.

[@sirjohng1]

@@Triadistic Even the so called Government admit to a Million+ unregistered insurgents.

[@WhichDoctor1]

Yeah the jobcentre are more dehumanising than the employers. I’m on disability now with long COVID. But I’ve had two phone appointments with them in the last couple of months. The first one they cancelled by email less than two hours before it was due. So that one got rescheduled. Was due to have my second one on Monday and that time they just didn’t so hone up at all. Didn’t even get a cancellation email until three hours after the time the appointment was supposed to start. Seems to be standard level of disrespect they have for us. But of course if I was the one to not turn up they’d be threatening me with sanctions immediately. I remember one time a few years ago when I was actually jobseekering with them, my work coach gave me the wrong date for an in person appointment. So I turned up on the day and time I was told to, only to be told my appointment had been the day before. I explained that I showed up when I was told to and accepted that it was their mistake, I think I still had a card with the date they’d written down for me so I could prove it wasn’t me. then said that since I’d not shown up the day before i was now on a formal warning and any other breach would get me sanctioned. There’s only soo long you can put up with that kind of treatment while getting no response from any of the jobs you apply for before just dropping out

[@shirleynanono6428]

Finished my BSc in Sep 2021. My first ‘proper’ job was as a live-in nanny. Couldn’t get lab/research work because I had ‘no proveable skills’. Now writing my MSc thesis. I’ve had an interview and a few rejections, but the one thing I’m dreading is the despair that I felt last time. Having all the passion for your subject and no one give you the chance to succeed. My parents have just started relaxing the pressure because they’ve come to realise that I can’t just walk into a company or research institute and hand them my CV. I’m supposed to have a ‘prized’ STEM degree. I can’t imagine how much harder it is for those in humanities and the arts.

[@seiwarriors]

Same as I just finished my masters thesis and as well and no probably will get one of those recruitment jobs as for my field is to dam competitive. Most likely will leave this country as nothing here at all gives us incentives to stay here now.

[@lc5176]

People and governments always go over the top. Because STEM was booming in the 00s and 2010s, it was STEM this, STEM that, EVERYONE MUST GO INTO STEM..... And then the bust happened and now we are left with a massive over-saturation of STEM grads. I wonder what the next fad will be?

[@martian8987]

I feel your pain! I have a biochemistry BSc, am published author in Genome biology, have other work, and still no job!

[@krissyr3393]

@@martian8987 might not have a job but that's amazing achievement.

[@mark.e.p]

It's bloody hard, don't give up something will come up.

[@jamesrindley6215]

It's not just young people many of us oldies have given up too. I'm in my late 50s and see the retirement age as chasing a moving target, it keeps going up, so I've decided to take things easy now. Just can't be arsed.

[@CatherineBirch-m5r]

@jamesrindley6215 My thoughts exactly! I retired from being unemployed, and I was so relieved to be done with endless jobsearch logs to fill out, signing on and being sanctioned for nothing at all.

[@jamesrindley6215]

@@CatherineBirch-m5r Right. Jobs are often set up to be demeaning and demoralizing and the unemployment system is much the same or even worse. If you manage it in a smart way, it's possible to live quite cheaply. You find different pastimes and pleasures that don't involve spending a lot of money.

[@cloudwalker9572]

Hope you get to keep your job until retirement, nowadays if you are over 50 and are looking for work you are too expensive to hire and too close to retirement to be worth investing in for a company.

[@Jontyfarmer]

You and me both mate

[@jamesrindley6215]

@@cloudwalker9572 Whether you are too expensive to hire is your choice of what demands you make. I think you have to be realistic that experience adds value only up to a point, and for many of us that probably peaked in our 40s. A person in their 50s probably has 5 to 10 good years of work to offer to a company. Given that a younger person will probably move on after a couple of years anyway, why would that be a disqualification?

[@Hickalum]

Create an HR department and they will create a web of HR processes to justify their own existence.

[@eddieharris6004]

Absolutely.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Exactly, with bureaucracy it isn't the outcome that is important just the process so the more convoluted they can make the process the better for them.

[@nickread354]

Human Resources - seldom resourceful and never humane.

[@blueboy77]

So very true!

[@andrewmorton7482]

These days it's rarely an HR department. More often its a recruitment agency who have a vested interest in making recruitment processes lengthy

[@yourseatatthetable]

They've grown up watching their parents working themselves into an early grave.

[@cliffwheeler7357]

Doing what exactly? I worked from the age of fifteen until I retired at sixty five. I am now seventy seven and still alive and well, a long way away from an early grave.

[@CatherineBirch-m5r]

@yourseatatthetable My grandfather worked himself into an early grave. He was only 67 when he died. Only 2 years to enjoy his retirement. Was it worth it I wonder, especially as he fought for his country in ww1. He only left a legacy of just over £400.

[@yourseatatthetable]

@@CatherineBirch-m5r I can think of more than a few people I've known over the decades that suffered similar fates. In the richest country in the world, it is shameful that people literally have to do this.

[@CatherineBirch-m5r]

@yourseatatthetable It was remembering my grandfather's fate, and watching my.father work hard all his life and not get more than a tiny house thst he had to pay a mortgage on for 30 years and also have to work overtime just to buy a colour tv, that made me live the lifestyle thst I did.

[@yourseatatthetable]

@@cliffwheeler7357 I watched 4 men die within a year of retiring; another two die from work related inflictions. I, myself, at the age of 14, working my first punch a clock job, got a server dose of carbon dioxide that put me in the hospital for a couple of days. I mowed a dozen lawns at the age of 10, shoveled snow, and worked summers for the local farmers, baling hay and mucking stalls. And here I am, at 59, working 45+ hours a week, split shift after split shift, never the same schedule each week. This morning, for example, I'll work for 6 hours, and then go back out this evening for another 4. In the 9 years that I've worked for my boss, three men have had accidents, falling off roofs, ladders, and one getting ran over accidently by a co-worker. My body aches; I am tired all the time; and no matter how much I work, it's all I can do to stay afloat. I even started mowing the strip club next door for cash during the summer months. So, p"sss off, friend.

[@RabbitMask-c7v]

Don't work - Be poor and relaxed Work - Be poor, timeless, and stressed

[@museonfilm8919]

I see plenty of folks sitting around EVERY DAY in the town I live in. They gather at Midday to drink, smoke and fight until late evening. They always seem to have the few items they desire, and don't need to work or answer to anybody.

[@clairelynch4056]

About to quit my underpaid most stressful job as a Special Needs T.A in a broken education system with no support, not enough staff and violence daily. The shit £19,000 as a single parent is a funking joke. I left school in 1989 and my first job as a jewellery finisher (no qualification) £14,000. My first flat in 1998 £58,000.

[@MO-ss5mj]

​@@clairelynch4056 youre lucky with the house

[@paulsara9694]

Let it rot western style?

[@LuisFlores-mc2tc]

This is dangerous

[@JustAnotherFallenAngel]

In my 50s now, not only are the majority of companies I've worked for are no longer there, a lot of the buildings I've worked in are no longer there. Unless you're working for yourself, all work is wasted.

[@lightEuphoria]

The job search & application process that you have described does not apply to young people only... I am in my mid 30s, recent graduate (masters) and I have been looking for a job since January. I have years of experience, several educations, number of certificates, and I struggle to go through all 5 or 10 interview stages that employer wants me to go through. It is exhausting. I am not working not because I don't want to, but because I am not allowed to. I was made redundant almost 2 years ago and was unable to get a job since. All of my friends who lost their job (many in their 20-30s) are unable to find a job, too. There is a quiet unemployment crisis going on, as well general unwillingness of people to work for 22,000 a year in a skilled job in London.

[@edwatson3992]

I'm 21 and just started by first job out of uni on Monday. I have a very good STEM degree from a very good uni and found the job hunting process absolutely soul-crushing, dehumanising and frustrating. And I think myself lucky cus it only took me 3 months!! The job I did end up finding is also not really what I want to be doing to be honest, it's quite a long commute and progression seems limited and I was sort of lied to by the job description as the real job is nothing like it. I've seen many of my peers take a lot longer to find jobs and then it's something completely unrelated to their degree with shit pay and no progression. What's the point when even with an exceptional degree you end up with a mediocre job and without that you're basically fucked

[@kangaroo1888]

Welcome to capitalism nothing new here😢

[@marianhunt8899]

If it's bad for a bright person like you, it's worse for people without good degrees. We live in a broken economic and social environment, a broken, brutal dog eat dog system.

[@edwatson3992]

​@@marianhunt8899I agree with you completely however I'm increasingly of the opinion that employers don't give a shit about your degree anymore, you just need the piece of paper. I feel a sense of regret that I put so much time and energy into a difficult degree when I should have put that effort into internships and work experience, which I actually did none of even though I tried. Employers care a lot more about previous experience through these methods than your grades in my experience. The degree is simply an incredibly expensive checkbox exercise these days for most roles

[@robc1014]

@@kangaroo1888whats your alternative?

[@JayPatel-jp1we]

A degree is a foot in the door. The rest is based on the amount of working knowledge you can acquire. What I suggest you do is treat your job like if it's your own business. Learn how your role effects other departments and vice versa. Do that for 1/2 years. Then either consider moving to another job, the one that you really want or see how you are treated by your current company. If every graduate expected an easy ride to a lucrative job, then you don't know the world of business. And that is what you are about to learn. Get ready to set foot in the arena. All the best!

[@andrewmorton7482]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Over the last 10 years I've been watching my son go through this and it's been absolutely heart-breaking. Endless hoop-jumping to get a job. Wages that didn't allow him to buy a house where the jobs were. Managers promoted to their level of incompetence who made his life a misery. A lack of job security that has made him constantly anxious. Now thankfully (for now at least) he has a job that allows him to work from home in an area where property is cheap and for a business that treats him with respect. Such businesses are too few and too far between.

[@HihihiHello-b4m]

(If you chose to breed) You CHOSE to make that possible for your breeding results when you CHOSE to breed. Your breeding result is going through that all for your personal pleasure, because you wanted to breed. Just one of thousands of reasons why breeding is so cruel. Purposeful breeders choose to make a potential victim of any horror for their own personal pleasure of being a breeder. You created a potential r pe victim, a potential p dophile, a potential victim of the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, any horrifying disease... for.your own personal pleasure. Cruel and selfish. (Unless you were unfortunately forced to breed/adopted/fostered.)

[@andrewmorton7482]

@@HihihiHello-b4m Hey Siri. Find me the definition of verbose stupidity

[@jessikapiche6097]

Same in Canada. Exact same thing. unaffordable housing, unaccessible healthcare, job paying minimum wages while asking to have 40 years of experience for placing stuff on shelves... No wonder they are giving up.

[@Ryusola]

You already stripped everything from Millenials, so Gen Z are seeing the absolute hopelessness of it and deciding... nope. No thank you. I blame none of them.

[@3beltwesty]

In the past one worked to survive. There was no safety nets

[@dallysinghson5569]

The safety net was cheap cheap cheap housing and plenty of work not requiring experience of a degree.

[@3beltwesty]

@@dallysinghson5569 You are delusional if you think the past was always so easy. ie on some fantasy re write to preach to whiners of today. ie you are clueless. Try sleeping on the carpet for over 8 months since all wages when to rent. Today they tell you you are going to be laid off with the Warn Notice; since today folks are fragile and not use to hard times of past eras. Ie they let you know and give you time. In the past they just fired folks in mass with zero notice. Someone must be supporting you to make up such horse manure beliefs.

[@theanonymspysandwich]

​@@3beltwestyIn the past the farm you where taxed to run might have gotten ransacked by merchenaries. What's your point?

[@3beltwesty]

@@theanonymspysandwich In the past one worked to survive and get ahead. There were less boobs of government money to suckle on and sit at home and whine like children. That was part of being an adult. ie learning that life is not Hollywood and you had to hustle to get a head. Whining was for children or spoiled adults that had some trust fund. Today folks would rather whine like spoiled children than hustle. If you say why work you are either retired or have someone paying you to sit and whine. Decades ago one third of the poor ate dog food.

[@leonardgibney2997]

After the war a house cost about a year's income. Today it's ten years. That's progress for you.

[@gdok6088]

Absolutely 100% spot on. I'm of your generation Richard. Your insights, understanding, analysis and empathy for young people is impressive and disarmingly accurate. Oh that ministers and employers would start to grasp this; they need to do so with great urgency. This is both important and urgent for the sake of our young people, the UK economy and our country.

[@stephen2203]

Actually, you only needed to say "for our young people".

[@stephen2203]

Ministers have forgotten that they are supposed to serve their population. These days they serve something else and tax us to pay for it.

[@skyblazeeterno]

Gen z has seen their older relatives get screwed by capitalism and are reluctant to follow them. Good for gen z

[@ltmund]

Screwed by Capitalism? You mean screwed by moving away from Capitalism?

[@ltmund]

@@PlutoPhobia-y7r Towards it though, and it's already causing failure

[@parrotshootist3004]

​@@ltmundthere's also a difference between WoN (A .Smith) and That work by Marx.

[@skyblazeeterno]

@@ltmund how have we moved away from capitalism?

[@skyblazeeterno]

@@ltmund how have we even moved towards socialism?

[@noellavelle2091]

You realy nailed with all this form filling etc.One of my 4 sons lately had the exact 💯 experience you described.I stayed tight lipped when my son spent 2 days preparing a test project for the company he was doing an interview with.He dident get the job.But what a waste of his time.I think he learned his lesson.Its not what you know its who you know.

[@planlosubertroffen2282]

yes and if you dont know any your lost most of the time. The Keeper Mentality is ruining it and These Days you dont get taught how to nourish yourself or your Soul, just emotional Capitalism ! but well i dont give up on this. there has to be Ways needing to be Explored! For us and the Ones who come after us.

[@An_Attempt]

The entry level positions have been evaporating. Also, the incentives to work hard are decreasing. They no longer believe that they can have a family, a house, or a good retirement.

[@garysmith5025]

As a small tech/engineering business with around 65 employees, we've refused to deal with agencies or use online application systems. We don't advertise the few vacancies that arise because there is always a steady stream of CV's and we genuinely keep any that could be relevant. A CV is the perfect document for any person to sell themselves, especially if they've not followed a strict template and been creative; I want to see their personality on paper. One of the most memorable CV's was in the form of a takeaway menu, it was from a 21 year old woman who had dropped out of a electrical engineering degree to help care for a family member with MND. I respect those values and her honesty, and everything on the CV screamed "intelligent person", turned out I was right; 12 years later she's our lead instruments engineer. I do wonder how many really good people slip through the net of these corporate recruitment processes, but their loss is our gain.

[@ProgamerEU]

Wonderful you do it like that, but I wouldn't dare to be frank and honest in my CV because most employers expect a standardized sanitised list of skills and experiences. Nothing else

[@garysmith5025]

@@ProgamerEU Why not take a gamble, apply for something you think might be out of your reach but send them a CV that you believe fully represents who you are; what have you got to lose?

[@dorothyb.]

Though I think cvs alone now thanks to AI are problematic

[@garysmith5025]

@@dorothyb. Why? A CV written by AI sticks out like a sore thumb, and it's not like we would employ someone without speaking to them as well.

[@angelg3642]

@@garysmith5025 I usually take a gamble and apply to jobs that are 80% fit of my skills with usually the only thing missing - YOE. The result - Possibility of my contact being blacklisted (not joking). Even if it sounds absurd SOME companies have your details already stored in their DB or IDK WHERE and when they track that you're application has been submitted and rejected somewhat recently it just goes to the trash. I've received a phone call few months ago regarding my CV and how my skills would be of great help for them (I had to use another email because of security reasons) and the HR lady straight up told me that they changed their mind because my previous one was already rejected and in 4 months I wouldn't have improved much since then. Bunch of HR bullshi.t 56

[@mixodorians12]

After leaving college I was hired by the local authority. Spent all day and most of the night writing database systems. Coding etc. After six months I quit from exhaustion.. and worked voluntarily for just the same money (they even paid my rent etc) on the dole. Can you imagine leaving a job because volunteering (the organisations I work for respect volunteers) is financially more rewarding and far more secure? Welcome to Britain. The local authority was full of know nothing, self important biatches who thought they had a right to treat you like crap, and wanted to motivate through fear. Sod that. When universal credit came online they stopped people volunteering.

[@thadtuiol1717]

Good for you, you've seen thru the BS

[@Padraigp]

Yes and stopped nixers ...I was just saying I have elderly parents and my own family and I have to do things like cut the hedges because you can't get anyone to do those things like clean windows or clear gutters ..nobody even sweeps the public road any more so I have to sweep a lot of the bloody road which used to employ council road sweepers and men used to be able to do a nixer. Cut a bush. Clean a window. Without needing insurance and to register as self employed and be cut off the dole. Its madness. They won't let people do things they could do without threatening to pull the rug out from under them if they dare try to do a small bussiness. My friend did his own bussiness tree cutting which is a seasonal job and in winter you have no work except after a bad wind. But he couldn't get any form fo support so he ended up going back on the dole. My other friend lost her leg in a car wrwck she had her own bussiness as a sort of woo therapist with reiki or something. To get disability she had to shut down her whole bussiness and prove it was shut down and then they told her she could get a job? She had her own bussiness???? They said she could drive herself with one leg to tescos and work the checkout in her wheelchair. But she couldn't be at home and do her therapies? When she had a good day and on her own terms. It's insane.

[@zoidberg444]

Let me guess. A ratio of 10 managers who do nothing to every 1 actual worker. I have experienced a similar thing.

[@Padraigp]

@zoidberg444 my friend has 9 managers for 29 staff. And that staff has got a workload of something like 7000 clients lol!

[@amywood2514]

£11.44 an hour, the minimum wage, which supermarkets and most jobs pay. Carers, shop workers,restaurants, fast food etc..that's all people are worth, then they have to rely on UC and get called scroungers, and told to get another job, fking ludicrous. These employers, especially the huge supermarkets, are making obcene profits, no wonder young folk are pissed off with it all.

[@bigbarry8343]

In my village they actually limit the hours to 2.5 days a week, and its enough to call a person in 'full time employment' these days. Simply, there are not enough jobs left in this country, too much outsourcing and offshoring.

[@Grassmonster3]

In addition, in supermarkets it's almost impossible to get contracted full-time hours so that you are desperate to pick up whatever anti-social shifts aren't covered at short notice. Before supermarkets were open 24/7, there was a life outside of work but working until 8:00 or 10:00 in the evening every shift and having to do that over every weekend means that life is all bed and work for minimum wage. Managers have been cut to the bone and much of the work previousy done by managers now has to be covered by "team leaders" who earn little more than they would without the title and different colour shirt. There is zero career progression. As staff numbers are cut back more and more and the remaining workers are expected to take up the slack, people stop even trying to achieve unachievable goals - they stop "going the extra mile" when every day is yet another marathon in bare feet over broken glass. Favours are a one way street - "Can you just stay an extra hour ?" "Can you come in tomorrow on your day off ?" "Can you change your shift pattern this week ?" and if you say ,"No" there's the guilt tripping. Try it the other way round - "Can I book time off for my parent's anniversary/my best friend's 21st/a wedding ?" and it'll depend on whether they can find cover with no effort or you are expected to try to find someone to cover. Good luck with that if you are one of the lucky ones contracted to work until 10:00 pm every Friday and Saturday. YES - I'M LOOKING AT YOU ASDA !

[@DMH52]

What are those supermarkets' costs exactly? I'll point out that people chose to work for that wage. If you don't like those wages, then skill up and find a better-paying job.

[@amywood2514]

@Fiscally_Responsible_DMH52 Easier said than done..Tesco made nearly 3 billion in profits last year and expects the government to top up their employees' wages 🤦‍♀️

[@DMH52]

@@amywood2514 Or the employees could decide to skill up and find other work. Apparently, this concept is difficult to understand, but it's the people choosing their outcomes.

[@nightnine5165]

Work? For what? So they cant afford basic necesseties like a home, a car and an groceries? Not only they expect slaves to work constantly, they also expect them to make more slaves? Pheh fuck it

[@Thalanox]

Oh, no. The family structure was well on the way towards being dismantled when the economy established this nonsense. The badness in the economy happened at a smaller scale, but grew proportionally as the family structure disintegrated for various sociological and economic reasons.

[@Gazr965]

Back in the 1960's only high skilled workers could afford a car, now I see people on benefits or so called crap wages with cars, mixed opinions on here.

[@Thalanox]

@@Gazr965 I don't think it's reasonable to apply 60's standards to today. This is not a single variable problem. Enough about the structure and foundation of a society and it's economy has been ignored that the induced problems have gotten very complicated. The balance of economic costs and what is needed to be an active participant in society has dramatically changed. Someone without a cell phone, computer, and internet connection, is far less capable of being a person in the modern day than they would have been in the 60s. These are not luxury expenses, they are necessary to keep up with the economy, keep up with job applications, and news regarding various industries. Housing, food, and basic utilities, combined with the extremely unrealistic idea that an average person would have a stay at home spouse taking care of the various upkeep tasks of life while the breadwinner played their role in the family unit, has dramatically changed the landscape. It is my view that any simplistic breakdown of "this is where the problem is these days, you're suffering because of your personal and individual failures as humans that an average person from back in the 60s would not suffer from" that fails to recognize the changing societal landscape regarding technology and economic structures is doomed to be poison instead of helpful.

[@jonathanj.7344]

Because all of the jobs providing mass employment when we were an industrial nation have gone. Now it's flipping burgers or working in a shop for 8to16 hours a week, Amazon warehouse picking or care work.

[@indricotherium4802]

On the road to dystopian corporatocracy, individuals shall be assessed for pliability, compatibility and earnestness of enthusiasm.

[@nellyx1x493]

You forgot the 'assessed by an algorithm' part... buy yeah, stuff it. The most talented creative people I've encountered would never fit with this system...

[@salparadise1220]

Almost. They’re selected for compliance and unquestioning obedience.

[@risingphoenix8072]

Yes, when hiring we called this “flexibility” which carried equal weight with skills, and I hated doing it. understand that “flexibility” does in fact mean unquestioned obedience. These are never the best, most motivated employees, and often a managers nightmare. Corporations with their HR departments running things :(

[@jasbindersingh2441]

If you worked in the 80s ....you'd be working to pay off your mortgage If you work in 2024 , you're working to pay someone else's That's the difference. It doesn't pay to work. Might as well just go on benefits and claim hosting benefit

[@dgraham-l1c]

Lazy basket

[@TheDavecroft]

No reason people can't buy houses. Plenty for less than £200K in the North of England, easily affordable to a young couple on average wage of around £30K - £35K each

[@aieverythingsfine]

yup, at least im not helping my captors that way

[@aieverythingsfine]

@@TheDavecroftoh of course everyone else is wrong and super smart dave can see it all, google dunning-kruger mate.

[@ordinarybread]

I bought a house 5 yrs ago at 23... it's not impossible.

[@gavindeacon6136]

Bricklayer here. If you're young, don't be too disillusioned by this video as there are plenty of very well paid jobs in the construction industry. It is hard and you would eventually have to learn how to manage your own money (we're mostly self-employed once qualified although not all of us) but there is such a demand for hard workers with a trade. I'd recommend my industry to any lost young people in a heartbeat. They won't have job names to brag about but they would be able to earn (you really do EARN your money here though) a good living, move out of mum and dad's and buy their own homes. And the training doesn't put you in 10s of £1000s of debt

[@AndrewBurrow2b1]

No young person with half a brain wants to ruin their body working a trade. Fucked back, knees and hands by 40? No thanks.

[@TheDavecroft]

You lost most of the younger generation when you said 'hard workers'!

[@malcolmthorman9126]

Well said

[@MileBoots]

Definitely opportunities in industries where people need practical skills.

[@The1n0nIy1]

It's interesting because when I see building sites you rarely see young men on them below about 30. Maybe younger ones these days aren't as "hands on" with construction? Don't want to get their hands dirty.

[@mramg6038]

If you use self service or online shopping, you're the reason young people don't have jobs.

[@Freesurfer688]

I suspect I've had autism and ADHD throughout my life. I've also suffered mental illnesses, anxiety and depression. And it's true, employers and employees treat you with contempt. I also suspect people from previous generations have suffered these, but were just labelled 'thick' or 'highly strung'. Unfortunately, I never had the luxury of not working. I had to work to survive. I suspect previous generations were the same.

[@wildberrygarden]

Yes, people calling people 'snowflakes' or whatever really don't help.

[@Freesurfer688]

@@wildberrygarden I never used the word 'snowflakes'. I just pointed out that mental conditions have always been around, never diagnosed, but survival made people work.

[@wildberrygarden]

@Freesurfer688 yes I know, I wasn't referring to your comment (which I agree with). I meant that some people use that word when people talk about their mental health problems or don't act in a certain way, which doesn't help people who are struggling.

[@Freesurfer688]

@@wildberrygarden I agree. In the past mental health conditions were not diagnosed or even known about, so the person in the workforce or at school was often bullied, called 'thick' or 'weirdo'. I agree with Richard that everyone has something constructive to bring and it's just a matter of identifying what it is and how to use their talents.

[@Cauldron6]

I got diagnosed with autism in 2022 whilst working at a high-demand, high stress job. I thought (foolishly) that being honest would allow me to work with my managers to build some balance, but they instead tried to PIP me and push me out. Never be honest with your employers about your mental health, they do NOT care about you

[@mishapurser4439]

Being autistic means out of the few opportunities that are available, many employers are unwilling to hire us. Then the gap in our CV puts us at a major disadvantage going forward.

[@darthkek1953]

Look on the upside at least you didn't get chickenpox.

[@arctech6169]

Just lie like fuck on your cv.

[@greasylox5767]

Try bus driving, mor autuists therethan you would have thought, work everywhere....

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@darthkek1953 At least with Chickenpox you get it once and it is over. Autism it stays with you forever.

[@Skaterbun]

I have operations director in my workplace with autism, they “came out” with this more than a year after they got the job. Do you say you have autism at your interviews?

[@clampchowder9569]

You're absolutely right, no one takes into account the experience of job seeking these days. You cant just hand your cv into places anymore, you have to apply online. That means manually inputting you information into countleas websites, jumping through so many more hoops, scrolling through endless job offers which are either not clear about who they actually are looking for or likely have already accepted someone for the position. Going to the job center is a joke. They just check that youve applied for at least 5 jobs that week and dont do anything to actually help you get a job other than suggest rewording your cv. I was stuck on universal credit for months and finally got a job at McDonald’s only because i had a friend who already worked there. I passed all my gcses with top marks and got 3 a levels. The unemployment crisis is always just blamed on young people not wanting to work, but everyone i know whos unemployed is actively really struggling to find a job.

[@0tispunkm3y3r]

Yeah and "moon on a stick" skill/attribute requirements for basic work. It's mental.

[@HexaBoxabl]

Jobs will pay your bills, business will make you rich but investment makes and keep you wealthy! I pray everyone here becomes successful

[@madiezancanellatl9205]

Everyone needs more than their salary to be financial stable. The best thing to do with your money is to invest it rightly, because money left for saving always end up used with no returns.

[@markdamascus7878]

Honestly our government has no idea how people are suffering these days. I much feel sorry for the disabled people who don’t get the help they deserve

[@mbalimaka6393]

Can you show me how to trade profitably, I honestly need another source of steady income

[@HexaBoxabl]

Kate Mellon Bruce is not just my family’s financial advisor, she’s a licensed and FINRA agent who other families in the US employs her services

[@HexaBoxabl]

She's active on face book @

[@t28mcd]

Never fill in a job application form, waste of time. Write yourself a good CV and get recruiters to find you a job.

[@thomasmorin749]

Young people look at their parents who worked all their lives and got nowhere and say why should we do the same.

[@TheDavecroft]

Any excuse. Most people who work all their lives usually own their own home and have a decent amount of pension savings, plus luxuries like holidays and nice cars. If you worked 40 years and got nowhere you've done something wrong.

[@CatherineBirch-m5r]

@thomasmorin749 My father worked hard all his life, and yes he finally owned his house after more than 30 years of no car, no home phone and no holidays abroad. The house was a rabbit hutch that the previous owners were most likely glad to get rid of. I hated it.

[@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes]

​@@TheDavecroftalot of people live close to poverty in this world and own only a few things.

[@don_barbour]

Self reveal.

[@dianebarwick8965]

I worked hard bought a house always worked raised family . No holidays , no meals out I now off the property ladder through no fault of my own so no there are people who have worked hard and have nothing I think it's called been made redundant and only earning a minimum wage job ever since . Minimum wage is not a livable wage . ​@@TheDavecroft

[@chillitotes]

I'm Gen X, Autistic I can't work for an employer anymore I always get sacked because I don't conform. I am so glad I didn't have children because they have been robbed of their future and AI is going to make it so much worse.

[@RichardJMurphy]

So sorry for your experience, and good luck

[@dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984]

The next revolution that will leave humanity behind. Though that revolution is already here, the economic impacts will be very great. I see more people living singular lives and becoming more and more isolated than ever before....

[@chrislambert9435]

You are encouraging such an attitude of "entitlement" this is the product of your delusionary "Marxist-Socialist fantasies" you are a danger to young people

[@leontaecoleman3644]

not wanting to be controlled by someone else doesn’t mean that you are autistic lol.stop using this crap.nobody wants to work a job for the rest of their lives.smart/normal people lol.

[@JakoWako]

Can’t conform or won’t? I tend to find autistic people are very adamant about doing things “the right way” when really they just don’t see why things are being done in a certain manner and would prefer doing things their way. That on top of being “weird” makes them very likely to be fired.

[@louishumble_]

Many Workplaces unfortunately require vast amounts of experience even for entry level positions. I have friends being rejected from entry level positions at Restaurants and fast food jobs, with a lack of experience being mostly given. It’s paradoxical how entry level jobs require experience yet no entry level job will accept you and let you develop experience

[@bigbarry8343]

its the older employees (40+) with experience that are being most discriminated against.

[@TheCam920]

@@bigbarry8343 It's probably both, there isn't just one victim in this

[@darthkek1953]

We're importing millions of low-skilled labourers... unsurprising low-skilled work is getting hard to get.

[@aniacancer7762]

And when you already have all this experience they need they say you are too old.

[@lindsaydobson]

@@darthkek1953 This is largely because our own populace considers low-skilled work beneath them.

[@fredrik3685]

Young people are working very hard, ..... in China.

[@mick0905]

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said at 0:38 when you said people in education are of "benefit to us". The system is designed to create workers who work and pay taxes then get discarded at the end of their useful lives.

[@leejohnson3209]

I'm in my mid 40s and for me, the whole process of applying for jobs takes me so far out of my comfort zone it's literally stopped me from reaching my potential. The whole premise, that I should big myself up, in writing, then in an interview is the very definition of torture to me. It was an ordeal and I'm not on the spectrum, I don't think. I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that I've gone through life feeling like a square peg in a round hole. The societal drift towards individualism makes me feel more and more alienated from the rest of society.

[@christopherellis2663]

True 👍 only a psychopath would do it.

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

Yes. It's like, we have to exaggerate all our skills, pretend not to have any gaps or weaknesses, then actually lie if required. It is sending such a big message that we are not OK as we are, and that getting the job involves hiding who you actually are, among other's who will be doing the same😂 I have to laugh, or might cry😢

[@leejohnson3209]

​@@MargaretDeakin-d6m'Please provide two references' are words that send a cold chill down my spine. I used to think, I don't know two people well enough to ask them to write a couple of paragraphs explaining how great I am! Is it not enough to torture me, why make me bring outside parties into this charade?

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

@@leejohnson3209 don't let the bas----s grind you down....

[@randomguy7175]

The Islamists have taken over system.. they only prefer Pakistanis

[@FART-REPELLENT]

The root-causes are our highly unethical economic system which can only thrive on the exploitation of the poor, rising inequality, debt, and poverty. Lastly successive governments since 1979 have given unlimited freedom and power to corporations.

[@jjohnson796]

Maybe its the Reagan-Thatcher effect finally catching up. 🤷‍♂

[@ninatkrav]

08 ruined everything ever since except for a small group at the top

[@marianhunt8899]

Our dog eat dog economic system is failing many, many people. I totally understand why young people feel so defeated. The job application system is broken. Zero hour contracts are the final nail in the coffin.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Zero hours contracts are symptom not the cause, decades of bad governance has lead to a failing economy and nothing left to strive for.

[@flakieflake9616]

And for the White majority being told they are the cause of the world ills, with every ethnic newcommer being prioritised ahead of them means it's easier to give up because success is virtually impossible.

[@davidp4456]

Are you saying my dog ate your dog? Let me tell you, he didn’t. That was someone else’s dog. What has canine obedience got to do with young people anyway? I’m sorry for your loss.

[@tommychappell6359]

eh? No he didn't. He said we live in dogeatdog world. Being failed at a large scale level. Some of them even enjoy the pain causing to young people. Including teachers. That is why we're stuck here. We've been subservient to a failed system.

[@davidp4456]

They still eat dogs in Korea. I’ve never had one though, have you? It can’t be very good when your dog eats the economic system. Perhaps the Korean’s are on to something and it explains why they have such a good economy. I’m not going to eat my dog. He rolls in fox poo and it wouldn’t be very hygienic. I hear that eating under cooked dogs carries a high chance of worms so I’d probably start with someone else’s dog, a puppy perhaps that’s been recently vaccinated. I believe that when they are done properly in a Bob Martin sauce they are delicious. 😆

[@jiml]

Maybe just maybe get rid of dei and the requirements of a bachelors degree for an entry level job young people want to work its HR that keeps people unemployed and also companies posting ghost jobs should be fined 500 grand for every fake job

[@iamworstgamer]

I worked my ass off for 18 hours a day in a company, gained 15 kgs and all sorts fo stomach disorder, and saved lot of money for company. in the end i was denied the variable pay which was minial. what do i get for working hard? just a new ferrari for CEO

[@amywood2514]

There's a lot of young people killing themselves these days, i see it all the time on Facebook, them going missing, then being found dead..so sad. The cost of living is disgusting, the price of a house is disgusting, whether buying or renting.. you're working to exist.. not live.

[@dcanes5720]

We need to be careful blaming outside influences for people unaliving ( sorry for stupid word- KZbin) themselves. 10 people might go thru the same thing only one decides death is the answer. It is a mental health issue or personal weakness of spirit that drives people to do it …..sorry not the cost of living or anything else.

[@BanjoPixelSnack]

Yes. My 19 year old cousin was one of them. Her farewell note said "I can't see a future for myself" among other things.

[@BanjoPixelSnack]

​@@dcanes5720 "Personal weakness of spirit"?? Wow. Just, wow.

[@amywood2514]

@@BanjoPixelSnack Sorry to hear that 💔

[@amywood2514]

@dcanes5720 Sorry, but this no future, low wages, not being able to get a house..a job that pays IS one huge reason for people killing themselves. I know of one guy who's wife fell pregnant with their second child, in his suicide note, he said he couldn't afford to have another kid. This stinking UK Governments corruption and mis- management, austerity is to blame. You do realise that these young people have known nothing but austerity, there's 10s of 1000s of food banks people working use. The town centres have turned into shit holes, great shops all shut down now due to bigger companies and supermarkets buying them up cheap..like ( Peter green) then shutting them down, along with Amazon ( who also pay shit wages)There's many reasons the country is in a real state...GOVERNMENTS POLICY. Nothing is changing with Liebour either, they're Tory on steroids.

[@oisinherron3821]

Thank you for giving us a voice. I did physics and trained as a physics teacher in the UK. They told us we are like gold dust because we are so rare. After 1 year of working in an English school I understand why we are so rare. Literally anything is better than working as someone young in the UK. Now I live in Japan and nearly have enough money to buy a house and maybe I can even start a family and live a normal life. I'm not going back.

[@robtheplod]

Why would they work? no chance of affording a house, being taxed to oblivion - society and Government have removed all aspiration. Imagine being young, struggling to afford their high rent, watching others get it all for free.....

[@TheDavecroft]

Plenty of affordable houses north of Watford. Lack of any work ethic is the problem. Easier to blame the government and hold your hand out for benefits than do a days work.

[@DanielDavies-il9kz]

Where do they get food from if they don’t work?

[@YourChoco]

​@@TheDavecroftwhat about jobs Dave?

[@TheHaighus]

​@@YourChoco That was my thought. Its pretty cheap to live somewhere with no jobs nearby, but then you have no money. Can maybe work out if you can get a job working from home. However anywhere in the north with good job opportunities isn't affordable. Manchester, for example, has the fastest rising rents and house prices outside of London.

[@theunknown9437]

@@DanielDavies-il9kz by living at home if their parents arent cruel enough to kick them out.

[@BrianCMullen]

Amen, sir. I believe you’ve totally summed up so much, and so well. It’s nice to feel “seen.”

[@junglecat4480]

they are working, they are working 2 jobs, they are working while studying, they are working overtimes. but america outsource some of their job overseas. I know, because I worked as an outsource. took their job with 1/20th of americans wage.

[@marcchrys]

Good points. Many young people have "seen through" the whole capitalist wage slave 'work till you die' ethic that older generations absorbed. Also, the globalization of capitalism and the impact of AI means that the jobs aren't there.

[@kieran4434]

There is no future in the uk

[@TheCam920]

This isn't a problem unique to the UK but I agree

[@alexdavis1541]

Correction, there is no future in the west

[@Redf322]

Capitalism is eating itself.

[@alexdavis1541]

@@Redf322 All ideologies do. Including yours

[@tlangdon12]

Once you have decided this is so, you are part of the problem. I don't hold that view. I think there are things we can do together to solve the problems we have.

[@deborahbanister-ve6lw]

The governments of the UK failed them and didn't give them hope ,no wonder some have my issues.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

100%, this question isn't hard at all, it is obvious why youngsters are giving up to anyone with eyes.

[@rocketpig1914]

If they were looking for hope in a government, then they were looking in the wrong place.

[@winterwulf1995]

Hope is for Disney movies not reality

[@3991-m6u]

This is a subject I have thought about a lot, having been a NEET from 2012 to 2016 and in patches before and after to that. Felt many of the employer trends and social dynamics you are talking about really taking hold when I was that age (early 30's now). While I think there is a lot of truth to everything said in this video, I think some of the usual culprits complaining about the young do have an element of truth to what they're saying too, though I really get angry with their own lack of accountability in creating it and cruel, reductive, unconstructive attitude. To be clear in advance, were young people completely faultless, I think they'd still be shafted because of the way the economy has been and will be in future. That being said, particularly around the subject of autism, ADHD and whatnot, yes I know these things are genetic + environmental, but I think the way kids are raised and educated has a huge contributing effect. Two of my close friends ended up being diagnosed with ADHD, I grew up with these guys, know their families very well and in both cases I think you would struggle to come up with a more effective way to create people with behaviours and thought patterns like ADHD - no moderation of technology use, general lack of discipline, parents unwilling to enforce rules because it's tedious for them etc. I know plenty other people who you can tell had a similar upbringing, I'm sure most others my age do too. Autism is more complicated I think, as a parent of a one year old, going to groups etc you see other kids even under the age of one and sometimes it's pretty apparent they are autistic, suggesting more of a genetic component. Nevertheless I certainly know a few kids who I think would never have been diagnosed with autism when I was that age. I know a 4 year old who's almost certainly going to be diagnosed with autism when she is old enough for it, who has a mum who is I would say very mildly autistic but functions normally, normal relationships, job, behaviours (known her very closely for 30 years) - her kid simply doesn't get told no in any meaningful way, no means nothing because it's not enforced. She was born in the pandemic so had both parents around a lot clucking over her and curating every experience for her, both of them simply feel too harassed by life to add to their troubles by enforcing anything with their daughter. Her nursery give the kind of generic soft touch approach (the standard approved practice) which she ignores and ends up happily running about outside because they have no real means to control her. You see plenty of people like this as a parent now, any could tell you similar I think. Again there are certainly people who the genetic expression is well at work in before anything in the postnatal environment could really have such an effect, but I feel confident saying there are also loads of kids who, while having some genetic contribution, develop behaviours like I describe due to the way their caregivers are behaving. Anyyway I think what is happening a lot of the time is that due to atomisation within families and society in general, parenting knowledge is not transmitted so well and modern parents rely on things like the internet a lot more to know what to do. The information they are getting subsequently ranges from the kind of anodyne "calmly and politely redirect the child towards a favourite toy" (as they punch another child in the face) official info, to a whole lot of utter nonsense dreamed up by some American hippy mum for only $45 (silver package), which appeals to parents because it promises that they won't have to stomach any tantrums or be particularly firm. These parents btw are usually both working, they'll be exhausted and have less stamina for sticking to boundaries, being proactive etc.

[@3991-m6u]

continued - So these parents just want an easy time of things, the tech is more polished and even more brainmelting now but when gen z were kids it was essentially the same dynamic and the same type of thinking among the prevailing ideas in parenting and early education. I don't mean to be so dismal but I think essentially nobody has had a clue how to raise people for quite a long time now and have been coasting along on established norms for decades. Boomers were the first in the trend I'd say - WW2 generation wanting to give their kids the security, peace and luxuries they did without + booming economy + emergence of mass media and consumeristic propaganda (marketing) created a very individualistic generation who struggled to put up with tantrums of their own kids, those kids grew up to be unwilling to put up with much themselves, precious about their wants in such a way that's incompatible with enforcing appropriate boundaries with kids + worsening economic prospects demanding more work to deliver the lifestyle they're accustomed to. As parents these people are deadbeats because it's all too much effort, and the kids get more and more messed up... Don't give me the Plato quote (Spartans beat Athens where he was from in a war soon after and ended the golden age of Greece...).

[@janhermanvanman9581]

Just turned 25, I've been working since age 16. At age 21, I was and still do work on avarage 52-60hrs a week as an HGV driver. Cash in £3k a month, mortgage at 24, and man has got only GCSEs. No disability, easy going work and a lot of work freedom, although hate my family for ruining my early 20s...

[@AHundred-ec5yq]

If u think £3k a month is good for the donkey hours your putting in... i feel sorry for you 😂😂😂

[@gfy2979]

The companies need absolutely nobody. They need you as a consumer, not as someone on the payroll.

[@DontSpySpying]

No one will be consuming without any money

[@charliemoore2551]

The rot set in about 45 years ago with the notion that it was all about the individual making himself or herself marketable. The invisible hand of the market would do the rest. Government skill centres began closing and entrepreneurial training companies started cropping up. You'd get a few months sitting in front of a bored trainer who would get you to commit slogans and cliches to memory and give you a useless certificate at the end. The government skill centres used to churn out people with basic skills in construction, computing, catering etc. The private trainers showed you how to write a CV that no one was ever going to bother to read. We have to get away from this idea that young people should be moulded to fit the needs of the market. It should be the other way around. We need to create a society in which people CAN contribute according to their abilities and can develop those abilities knowing that they will be rewarded for doing so.

[@marianhunt8899]

Correct

[@Rexhunterj]

The most demoralising part is growing up and being indoctrinated to "be your best self" and "everyone has something they are good at" I'm good at computer programming and computer software in general, there is no work for it in my country, I was sold lies upon lies for a few dollars and now I'm fucked for the rest of my life because unlike most people I dont have family to rely on. I'm just fucked.

[@Slim333yBoi]

it's called communism

[@garyh1572]

Unless you have inherited wealth, then you have no chance.

[@hilarygibson3150]

I'm a self made millionaire. I did some crappy jobs, when I was 26 I bought a second hand van, after a bit another couple, then a small truck, then a big truck, etc. There is literally nothing I did that couldn't be replicated now. BTW my inheritance from my parents was 10k, no house. They passed after I started business

[@garyh1572]

@@hilarygibson3150 You're not "self-made". You had to use the infrastructure that was paid for by taxpayers !!!!!

[@Vince-l4k]

Lot of women have 1 or 2 houses inherited, these days, that's why they look for the older guy

[@lindsaydobson]

There are countless self made millionaires out there. It's a good thing they didn't have your attitude.

[@garyh1572]

@@lindsaydobson You're not "self-made". You had to use the infrastructure that was paid for by taxpayers !!!!!

[@dutchfrisianmuddigger.6806]

I worked when I was 19 60 hours a week and earned only 1600€ a month! my wife also worked and earned 800€ a month we lived just above the poverty line. now I have to work until I am 68 for my pension! why would you work and can't live normally? Gen Z is right.

[@Aashka_The_Mystic]

Yeah it's ridiculous and it's the same in the USA. We might have less taxes, but pay is terrible and housing prices are insane

[@dantesparda7719]

In which country?

[@duanenavarre7234]

cost of living crisis = demotivated workers, its not just young ppl saying screw it either.

[@VoldyMorty]

Agreed. I think I’ll just point out that gen z is the first to publicly give the middle finger to the cronies. Of course I’m glad all or most people of all generations feel this way now.

[@christopherhoggins5008]

Thanks Richard! I'm a 54 years young Autistic Person and I wish someone had said this 35 years ago as it would save me a lot of heartache. I don't know how up you are on all this but outside of a few large and forward thinking employers, the world gets actively worse for us with every call centre or online fulfilment centre that is built. Even little thing like the led indicators in newer cars adds to the 'noise' in the world that makes it hard for us to engage with it. And of course having Liz Kendal point at us as the new reason that neoliberalism isn't working doesn't help much either.

[@MarkGrindell]

Gosh, You do not sound autistic in your writing. You are writing a lot of common sense too; it's not easy navigating a world like this.

[@christopherhoggins5008]

@@MarkGrindell many can, including, it is believed, James Joyce but then it’s what detriments come along with it. It’s the spiky skill set, good at one thing, terrible at others that causes problems.

[@chrislambert9435]

You are encouraging such an attitude of "entitlement" this is the product of your delusionary "Marxist-Socialist fantasies" you are a danger to young people

[@MarkGrindell]

@@christopherhoggins5008 To make complex things work you have to able to maintain concentration. That's all there is to it, really. But we now appear to have a "relabelling" where any ability to do anything to any degree of competence puts you squarely on "the spectrum";' the end point of this is what? Nothing of any significance ever actually gets done by anyone?

[@christopherhoggins5008]

@@MarkGrindell The spectrum is a very lazy and woefully inaccurate term that tries to squash three dimensional issues into a straight line with normal somewhere on it and a whole heap of complex attributes that can be regarded useful (in society’s terms) or not. Whether it is an ability to focus / concentrate on a problem that betters society or the stats of a sports team or the cliched trains determines someone’s usefulness in the modern world. The ability of someone to thrive in the world with autism depends on the severity of certain traits, where they are born in the world and what type of society but mostly family wealth. While some may abuse terms like ‘on the spectrum’ others go the other way of telling people that they can’t be autistic because their uncle/cousin/nephew/whatever has it and the act completely different to you.

[@kinggeoffrey3801]

Any youngsters out there watching this, get an apprenticeship. Don't get into debt for a degree. Most degree's won't get you anywhere.

[@angelg3642]

Most jobs nowadays won't let your CV get reviewed unless they : A) see a very juicy wall of experience and skills B) see a degree with a juicy wall of internships Even many internships require experience. Starting your journey is nearly impossible for anyone that isn't lucky to know people of power within the company🤷‍♂.

[@lonevoice]

I am a retired professional but can relate to much of this having had three university graduate boys struggle with this. Perhaps it relates to boys more than girls as it seems that at a young age, girls are often more articulate than boys, and the HR firewall for many businesses seem to be very focused on this. One of the boys (with grade 2A* and 2A A levels) faced a similar problem trying to get into medical school. He had good writing skills and had already written two novels but getting into medical school requires a demonstration of empathy and at this age it seems to be more natural to girls rather than boys. Perhaps that is partly why medical school intake is largely female. Competition is also massive. When Jeremy Hunt was Health minister he stated that it was cheaper to bring in a qualified doctor from abroad rather than train one up in the UK, so that doesn't help. Fortunately for my son, having been rejected by all but one university my wife and I insisted that he went on a weekend course aimed medical school entry. He did and sailed through his entry into the last remaining one and has been very successful during his training and is now fully qualified. Another one of the boys got a chemical engineering masters from one of the Russell Group universities. Then when he came to trying to get a job, he hit a brick wall and it went on for months. Firstly it wasn't helped by the fact that businesses seem to minimise their graduate training programmes and as with medicine, will tend to bring in qualified experienced people from abroad as and when needed. There are agencies in the UK that do just this. Then there is the HR firewall and that is a real nightmare. In the end my wife and I had to take on getting him a job as a project with formal weekly meetings with him to discuss progress and strategy. Eventually, largely thanks to my wife, he got a job and so far has been very successful in it and has already been promoted.

[@shrunkensimon]

Girls are spoon fed, praised, given attention, and never demonized. The complete opposite for boys. I experienced this over 20 years ago, in private education, and it has clearly only gotten worse. Factor in positive discrimination hiring practices and it compounds the issue even further. The establishment doesn't want well educated, self reliant, confident men. They want down trodden scraps that can be easily controlled out of sheer desperation.

[@blessos]

The obvious difference to me is that girls are more naturally compliant. They are quite happy to dance to someone else's tune if it satisfies their material needs and places them somewhere in the social hierarchy. Men are less motivated by this and want independence and autonomy. Not subservience.

[@davidc4408]

Clearly a successful family - 1 doctor and 1 Masters in STEM from a Russell group university

[@lonevoice]

@@davidc4408 Maybe but we've had plenty of frustrations. A lot of young people will not have the benefit of people like my wife and I to drive things forward and I don't know where my two would have ended up without our help. I just feel sad that so much young potential never gets a chance.

[@richardjamesclemo6235]

Permission is always the problem. You can be the best in the world at whatever, but unless you have permission…

[@mrah2423]

Thank you for this Richard. Like many, I feel hopeless as I feel I'm not being paid enough, sky high living costs and it's tough getting onto the property ladder. I wish things were better but I believe it'll get worse

[@shookshank]

Love this, been watching your content for the past week or so Richard and you hit the nail on the head with so many of these topics. You are able to look at the details of a particular problem, connect the dots on how this relates to wider society as a whole and then condense the information simply enough for a layman like myself to understand. Really appreciate your work. On this particular topic, as a young millenial who has worked in various corporate settings for almost the last decade, I can say for a fact the toxic environment in UK offices today is the reason Gen Z aren't particularly jumping for joy at the prospect of entering the workplace. The modern UK workplace has become toxic for many reasons - untechnical managers who expect anything is possible and make ludicrous demands, coworkers who play political games rather than just dealing in data and facts, businesses being unwilling to invest in a indivduals development and upskilling, stagnant wages that don't really make skilled work appealing anymore except out of neccessity. The list goes on, and on, and on...

[@schrodingerscat1863]

It isn't a difficult question to answer at all. To get people working hard they need to have a future worth working for. The current economic trajectory for our young people is utterly bleak so they see nothing worth striving for. Sure there will be some that are industrious regardless of this but most drift into apathy, normally followed by hopelessness and depression, the ill health you speak of is a result of that, nothing more. I really feel sorry for young people just starting out now, their future has already been destroyed by decades of bad governance and a parliament currently full of clueless clowns gives them no hope.

[@JesterEric]

You need a carrot at the end, but you also need a stick. Open borders mean the UK must compete internationally. In many countries if you don't work you don't eat

[@wdmeister]

It's as simple as that. But governments don't want to admit it because it would mean taking responsibility. Lower taxes, do something about the landlord mafia and offer decent wages. It's REALLY that simple!

[@bigbarry8343]

Outsourcing - 80% of jobs are now performed by people from India or Indian companies ( who only hire Indians)

[@TigerTiger-fx3ps]

they only hire indians cas tey know they can exploit indians and indans wont complain (cast hey are generally kinda meek). its not because of some intra-racial altruism. if they exploit whites, they know whites have more mentality to seek legal action if the bosses act badly, whch they fear.

[@Thalanox]

There are strong trends regarding what happens when an Indian person takes ownership of a company. Bad trends. I'm not sure why this is, because it's happening with Indian Indians as well as "westernised" Indians.

[@tonysanders536]

OMG your best video yet. I have seen this problem everywhere and it is destroying the young. HR is not fit for purpose in large organisations, especially Governemt.

[@skyblazeeterno]

HR is the equivalent of the guards at Auswitcz and Dachau. Terrible people

[@johnlesoudeur3653]

Why have HR Departments become 80% female? It's weird and disproportionate.

[@HypertronPrime]

The biggest issue is that we have lost hope. we can no aspire to what out parents and grand parents achieved. Houses and even apartments are completely out of reach for us. no matter how hard we work we are paid so little for our effort this is a problem with having a minim wage that gets lower for the younger you are. all of this has destroyed our mental health making us lose hope for the future and feel depressed.

[@TIGERZY2K]

What is the use of having too many rounds in the screening process when candidates can be hired with just one interview?The more elaborate the recruitment process employed by corporates the more expensive the cost of hiring candidates.Too many rounds in screening process is extremely exhausting for the candidates due to pressure of passing the recruitment process could extend upto a week.

[@mikeonb4c]

I absolutely love your essays. I have been trying in vain over many years and to a general reception of strange looks to make many of the points you have been making across your essays. Why then are the Great And The Good not doing something to stop it. My personal experience by the way is that the monster you describe grew during my working years (I retired in 2017) and but for the fact that I was stuck with responsibilities (mortgage, dependant family etc) I don't know what I might have done as I went through first, a constructive dismissal, next a bullying at work (resulting in a formal grievance which I actually won after a 2 year fight to get the evidence heard), and then a divorce caused largely by the impact all of this had had on my family. My son would have witnessed all of this, and many young people likewise with their working parents. So whilst I was in hell but was at least heading for the exit (and it did take a significant toll on my mental health) they will have been looking at where I was and deciding they didn't want to go there. I now have a partner with an dyspraxic/autistic son. He has plenty of ability in specific areas, and a work routine would really help his mental health, but noone is interested because is is not 'normal'. It is a complete and utter disgrace and a failure in our society that we should have allowed things to become like this. Diversity? My arse!

[@davidcann8788]

Right on, Richard. A perfect diatribe. Gen Xer here. It used to be so easy when people used their judgement. Now you have to please an algorithm with keywords. It's bonkers out there.

[@dec3142]

I worked in an Applegreen petrol station for 9 years, 7 years into my employment I got promoted to assistant manager. More money and a full time contract. I felt I was gonna make something of myself. 1 year in position ai recieved training in stock checks, no training in banking or ordering. So I found another job, which unfortunately turned out to demand working longer houses for the same base rate at my previous (which was alot easier). Went back for 5 months now I quit again and currently trying to enroll in my 3rd job this year. My life has gone down hill pretty quickly I just have nothing but hatred. I just want to watch this country burn 😂

[@TheDavecroft]

You do realize it is easier to get a another job while you are still in employment, don't you? Chucking in a job because you don't like it sends the wrong signal to employers.

[@jammydodger1449]

There's an old african proverb. "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth"

[@dec3142]

@@TheDavecroft I am employed now...

[@richardjamesclemo6235]

Personally, i see being ‘divorced’ from previous employment as being better than ‘going through a separation’.

[@simon3726]

You want to watch the country burn because you decided to change/quit jobs? If there’s ever been a better example of blaming others for your own shortcomings…

[@ReginaldArthurWolfe]

Live in Germany, get taxed 36% on my very modest income. If I work more, get taxed more. Buying a house is impossible without perpetual slavery. Rent is also perpetual slavery. Don't work, state pays for everything. Lady beneath me has all her rent paid, five kids, different men coming and going. State pays rent, health insurance, child support and all manner of benefits. I doubt she's worked a day in her life.

[@RK-ve4xp]

Good deal for her.

[@willsonsiao357]

Well said , reasonalbe,aceptale,productable,predictable You are a wise man.

[@dodgyarchetype3251]

26 year old autist here. Extremely well said, and I'm grateful that at least somewhere we are heard.

[@davidp4456]

Have you tried not using your phone and engaging in social media?

[@jenniferandoh5342]

Absolutely, I couldn't agree more with this video. Finding a job has become a full-time job in itself. Moreover, being a young person with a hidden physical disability and neuro diversity makes it a real struggle to shine in the competitive and onerous muti-stage job application process. I want to reiterate, Gen Z WANT to work. However, we face barriers when attempting to do so. Unfortunately, opportunities for social mobility are ever dwindling. Things like having a well-paid job to provide for your family and free up time to serve the community, home-ownership and starting a family - markers of adulthood - have become a pipe dream. 😢

[@33Crazydude]

I'm 46 years old and have been diagnosed with ASD. I have a great deal of empathy for younger generations on the autism spectrum, as navigating the workplace environment can be a nightmare, especially when dealing with those in authority. Even though management is aware of your condition, they often continue to treat you with disrespect and contempt, which heightens anxiety and keeps you on edge. For decades, I’ve struggled with work, and while I’ve managed to stay in my current job for the past eight years, there are still days when I feel like walking away. It’s a constant challenge to engage with neurotypical people, and when circumstances become difficult, it can seriously affect your well-being.

[@CarlStJohn-x9w]

No it isn't. How do you motivate boys and girls on the asperation of a living wage or minimum wage ? Houses are not affordable. Why bother ? This generation are saying no. You cannot blame them can you ?

[@BeingMrsE]

I have to say that your pov is a breath of fresh air even for me as a HR professional...Tey are a generation to be embraced so the world of work needs to be willing to change. How do you manage to upload daily? I am impressed.

[@roberthuntley1090]

Modern work practices like zero hours contracts, hot desking and so on do nothing to make an employee feel valued.

[@TheDavecroft]

Don't forget working from home, 'blended working', shorter hours, longer holidays, career breaks, 4 day weeks, etc etc......

[@lc5176]

@@TheDavecroft Most people don't get that luxury. What world are you living in?

[@jim-es8qk]

They perceive they can't win the game. So they give up.

[@georgeton4991]

We need to tax the SUPER RICH.

[@Thalanox]

​@@georgeton4991You'll run out of rich people's money after a couple years. What do you do then after ripping apart so much of the economic infrastructure?

[@roverchap]

HR departments have gone mad and weld far too much power in organisations. They have become self-serving fiefdoms, imposing policies on managers instead of letting managers determine who is suitable for recruitment. HR have all the power with no accountability.

[@owhite1984]

I was told i was depressed and given meds, turns out i had stage 4 cancer and now I'll never work again despite my desire too. (Diagnosed Under 40) Now I'm depressed. The NHS is chronically underfunded, its criminal and has cost me years of life.

[@lol5346]

I'm 31 and in australia and feel exactly as u described the whay I'm treated by employers to how I was teated back in 2010 is way worse half the job interviews I've onto had no human interaction at all and once working there aren't treated like a hument bing and I'm a tradesmen couldn't agree more atm

[@SamUploads420]

This is fantastic. Im 30 (so not that young unfortunately), awaiting adhd and autism diagnosis. I work full time but feel trapped and unable to progress because of the terror of job applications, interviews and the like.