For years in the United States getting a good job was a matter of training to do a job that required a lot of training to do. Becoming a doctor of medicine took ten years of university and residency training. Becoming a scientist required several years of training. Getting a bachelor’s degree was the entry level requirement for a lot of good jobs and further university training was required for the best paid jobs, like engineering and pharmacy and teaching and nursing. Some jobs had their own entry level training and even if they didn’t pay well at first, you could eventually earn well after you were familiar with the job.
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That started to change with hostile takeovers that erupted in American businesses under financialization. The return on investment for an education was damaged when businesses were liquidated across the U.S. and well trained people became unemployed. That was pretty bad for a lot of otherwise employable people. The average time spent in a job went from a long time to less than four years, even in jobs that required five years of training.
The next blow to the American job market was AI screening and cancel culture and DEI and other ways of screening out job applicants instead of screening them in. When an algorithm rules out candidates who have no idea how to get past the algorithm, it becomes more and more true that getting a good education doesn’t lead to good employment anymore. Getting hands on training might not lead to long term employment either. That destroys the return of investment in training at American universities and also on-the-job.
Nowadays, the application process is contaminated, according to Kim Komando, with 40% fake job advertisements. In fact, a lot of people have no idea how to get a job these days. The job market is broken.
What I have been thinking is that the lack of legitimate job opportunities may be a gateway to aid the establishment of a social credit system. What if all you had to do to get a job in the context of a new social credit system is to get the appropriate ap on your phone for social credit credentialization? Wouldn’t that encourage you to bend the knee to a new social credit system?
As we see the American job market languishing through another year of having confusing mechanisms of application in an environment with little success in finding rewarding pay, rewarding benefits or even any position at all, it’s worth wondering what this is leading up to. Could it be a motivation to join social credit credentialing when it comes on the scene in the near future?
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