Great article! This is spot on with the current state of the job market and the realties of what candidates are experiencing. I have faith that if we can find some sort of "balance" in the chaos (meaning aligning AI with human experience) then we can move the needle towards building a strategy to close the gap on this issue. With tech ever evolving, we will continue to be blindsided by the results of evolution however we can be proactive in aligning on keeping humanity - HUMAN, while using AI as a tool not a lifeline. I wrote an article about this on LinkedIn, feel free to chime in.
Spot on for the UK job market too! I’ve never known it to be so bad - recruiters just not replying, or sending your CV for a role and then ghosting you, plus our cost of living expenses (exacerbated by brexit) are bananas too.
Very good article! I’m over 50 and have found that returning to the market after raising kids is nearly impossible. My friends and family who have stayed in the workforce do not understand. I’ll be sharing your article!
Rachel, yes the job market is dying, it has been for quite some time. I can sense the frustration and concern in your writing, and it is not unwarranted. I tried to write an explanation but you have a comment length limit which is not that long.
Many people in the US do not have a deep understanding of how systems work in socialist economies. This is the problem because the moment someone speaks the S word or its derivatives the C word, it is attacked by bad actors (usually bots) for harassment with nullifying credibility attacks that have no rational basis. These may be evil people, but more often in this digital age its simply bots that have been programmed for such by those evil people to interfere in discourse and discussion (communication). It also creates distorted reflected appraisal, that subtly drives people crazy if they are not consciously aware of the dangers (a topic for another time).
The simple fact of the matter is, in a free economy you don't have much interference because interference increases cost among many possible alternatives., and liquidity allows factor markets to direct resources to the ones with less interference.
This is not the case in socialized, centralized, or concentrated systems, and these failure domains have been examined as far back as the 1930s with Ludwig von Mises writings on the subject matter dealing solely with the structure of a system and not even seriously addressing other aspects such as psychology. These are available for download and review at mises.org's library free of charge.
The cohort who most supports these systems despite their known failures does so for one single purpose seeking short-term gains and coercive control while promoting an irrational utopia ( when in reality destruction is what you get given ignorance of underlying natural laws and principles).
A resilient system must be made to be brittle and inflexible, before bringing to crisis/failure where a pivot can take place; often towards more socialized structures which will fail even more. With those leaders front-of-load blocking any towards resilience change.
This is a longstanding evil, most evil is not properly described and people are blinded as children to it.
Evil is any act that does not promote the long-term beneficial growth of self or others. Irrational justification is a form of self-violation leading to the blindness. In people, evil is simply a willful blindness and numbness to the consequences of their actions and they continue until stopped. The sociopath epitomizes this.
What these market dynamics are (in S economies), in actuality is a slow creeping silent ruin., and these cohorts employ a myriad of dirty methods. It is by design, with a single group (cohort) acting as two separate groups to push/pull towards the destructive end.
I'd suggest you read what Mises had to say about S-word economies and how they fail. He is an exception to most all other writings in the subject area. Refutations of Keynes are also quite good, but be aware that this area of study touching on S-word subject matter is generally a cess-pool of deceit with roughly half being true (often only in isolation, but generalized to the point of no rational basis), and the rest being false. The convincing lie.
The job market is not the only market suffering these negative effects. Interference is used broadly to concentrate and sieve markets shrinking them until they disappear.
You see this in employee/labor relations, gender relations (finding a mate), communication/interpersonal relations, knowledge/educational relations, philosophy and ideology. Its largely by design for intended effect. Divide and conquer.
These systems fail long term, so the only thing one can expect from utilizing these systems at the outcome is slavery or death, and by the time you reach that critical point its already long been a cascade failure that can no longer be corrected (i.e. an avalanche/dam that broke)
Socialism and Communism, Mao is another keyword often looked for.
Regardless of platform, if the comments are indexed they will come, and its particularly bad on Reddit/Ycombinator linked items.
It regularly seems anyone critiquing or having neutral to negative sentiment (determined by algorithm) in posts with those keywords gets swarmed by bots, that seek to discredit without basis, nullify, or any number of other dirty tactics aimed at harassment and bullying (coercive pressure), essentially the basic elements of thought reform and torture (as documented by Robert Lifton, on Totalism).
Personally, I prefer rational conversations backed by valid supporting evidence and given that platforms have no solution to this interference; most communication and discourse on the subject becomes fundamentally limited, once the bots show up.
I've done a lot of rigorous study on the related subjects and its history, and it can become a very dark subject.
The economics aspects are a relatively light endeavor, everything else gets into dark territory. To about the depth with the closest equivalency being the true understanding of how and why the Nazi's did the horrible unthinkable things they did, only in many respects its significantly worse because the Nazi's were rather straightforward about it (in comparison to more modern cohorts today); and these groups steep themselves in coordinated lies, and utilizing many perceptual tools that had not been discovered or existed at the earlier times, still all the same to do the unthinkable.
Yep. PhD in theoretical physics, years of industry experience and have been trying to get a job for over 6 months. Networking seems the way to go but being very introverted makes this extremely difficult. It can be rather soul destroying.
If you have to learn salesmanship to get a job, might as well become a salesman and get paid for it.
Great article! This is spot on with the current state of the job market and the realties of what candidates are experiencing. I have faith that if we can find some sort of "balance" in the chaos (meaning aligning AI with human experience) then we can move the needle towards building a strategy to close the gap on this issue. With tech ever evolving, we will continue to be blindsided by the results of evolution however we can be proactive in aligning on keeping humanity - HUMAN, while using AI as a tool not a lifeline. I wrote an article about this on LinkedIn, feel free to chime in.
Spot on for the UK job market too! I’ve never known it to be so bad - recruiters just not replying, or sending your CV for a role and then ghosting you, plus our cost of living expenses (exacerbated by brexit) are bananas too.
Very good article! I’m over 50 and have found that returning to the market after raising kids is nearly impossible. My friends and family who have stayed in the workforce do not understand. I’ll be sharing your article!
Rachel, yes the job market is dying, it has been for quite some time. I can sense the frustration and concern in your writing, and it is not unwarranted. I tried to write an explanation but you have a comment length limit which is not that long.
Many people in the US do not have a deep understanding of how systems work in socialist economies. This is the problem because the moment someone speaks the S word or its derivatives the C word, it is attacked by bad actors (usually bots) for harassment with nullifying credibility attacks that have no rational basis. These may be evil people, but more often in this digital age its simply bots that have been programmed for such by those evil people to interfere in discourse and discussion (communication). It also creates distorted reflected appraisal, that subtly drives people crazy if they are not consciously aware of the dangers (a topic for another time).
The simple fact of the matter is, in a free economy you don't have much interference because interference increases cost among many possible alternatives., and liquidity allows factor markets to direct resources to the ones with less interference.
This is not the case in socialized, centralized, or concentrated systems, and these failure domains have been examined as far back as the 1930s with Ludwig von Mises writings on the subject matter dealing solely with the structure of a system and not even seriously addressing other aspects such as psychology. These are available for download and review at mises.org's library free of charge.
The cohort who most supports these systems despite their known failures does so for one single purpose seeking short-term gains and coercive control while promoting an irrational utopia ( when in reality destruction is what you get given ignorance of underlying natural laws and principles).
A resilient system must be made to be brittle and inflexible, before bringing to crisis/failure where a pivot can take place; often towards more socialized structures which will fail even more. With those leaders front-of-load blocking any towards resilience change.
This is a longstanding evil, most evil is not properly described and people are blinded as children to it.
Evil is any act that does not promote the long-term beneficial growth of self or others. Irrational justification is a form of self-violation leading to the blindness. In people, evil is simply a willful blindness and numbness to the consequences of their actions and they continue until stopped. The sociopath epitomizes this.
What these market dynamics are (in S economies), in actuality is a slow creeping silent ruin., and these cohorts employ a myriad of dirty methods. It is by design, with a single group (cohort) acting as two separate groups to push/pull towards the destructive end.
I'd suggest you read what Mises had to say about S-word economies and how they fail. He is an exception to most all other writings in the subject area. Refutations of Keynes are also quite good, but be aware that this area of study touching on S-word subject matter is generally a cess-pool of deceit with roughly half being true (often only in isolation, but generalized to the point of no rational basis), and the rest being false. The convincing lie.
The job market is not the only market suffering these negative effects. Interference is used broadly to concentrate and sieve markets shrinking them until they disappear.
You see this in employee/labor relations, gender relations (finding a mate), communication/interpersonal relations, knowledge/educational relations, philosophy and ideology. Its largely by design for intended effect. Divide and conquer.
These systems fail long term, so the only thing one can expect from utilizing these systems at the outcome is slavery or death, and by the time you reach that critical point its already long been a cascade failure that can no longer be corrected (i.e. an avalanche/dam that broke)
What are S word and C word?
Socialism and Communism, Mao is another keyword often looked for.
Regardless of platform, if the comments are indexed they will come, and its particularly bad on Reddit/Ycombinator linked items.
It regularly seems anyone critiquing or having neutral to negative sentiment (determined by algorithm) in posts with those keywords gets swarmed by bots, that seek to discredit without basis, nullify, or any number of other dirty tactics aimed at harassment and bullying (coercive pressure), essentially the basic elements of thought reform and torture (as documented by Robert Lifton, on Totalism).
Personally, I prefer rational conversations backed by valid supporting evidence and given that platforms have no solution to this interference; most communication and discourse on the subject becomes fundamentally limited, once the bots show up.
I've done a lot of rigorous study on the related subjects and its history, and it can become a very dark subject.
The economics aspects are a relatively light endeavor, everything else gets into dark territory. To about the depth with the closest equivalency being the true understanding of how and why the Nazi's did the horrible unthinkable things they did, only in many respects its significantly worse because the Nazi's were rather straightforward about it (in comparison to more modern cohorts today); and these groups steep themselves in coordinated lies, and utilizing many perceptual tools that had not been discovered or existed at the earlier times, still all the same to do the unthinkable.
Yep. PhD in theoretical physics, years of industry experience and have been trying to get a job for over 6 months. Networking seems the way to go but being very introverted makes this extremely difficult. It can be rather soul destroying.