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Things suck right now in Amerikkka and I can only imagine how much it will be in 2027 when I graduate High-School, I worry that with this gig-economy and AI shit going around I will never achieve my art dreams and be stuck as a Wagie.



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What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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Psychiatrist, prenatal testing drone (eugenics), any type of programmer, technical sciences academic (including doctors), engineer.

>>1252
I dont think so i think you just need no options

>>1602
WTF is a paid rapist

Pharmacist. I hate them.

>>1252
You slander agricultural proletariat. Hanging chickens is back-breaking proletarian labor



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There's been lots of speculation around if AI hype will actually materialize into real job displacement but this study from nov 2025 pretty definitetively shows we are in the beginning stages of it. https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/CanariesintheCoalMine_Nov25.pdf

>Early-career workers

(ages 22-25) in AI-exposed occupations experienced 16% relative employment declines, controlling for firm-level shocks, while employment for experienced workers remained stable

so basically the only group still experiencing headcount growth are mid-career professionals 35+.
22-25 are declining, and 26-34 are stagnating and likely to start declining as well.
And keep in mind publicly available AI only just came out in 2022, and yet this level of displacement has already started, You don't need some futuristic level AGI or something like that, its already happening. This also can't be explained by tarriffs or general business uncertainty as well, because the GDP growth is up 4% and the study controls for firm level shocks. If you're in a white collar profession, especially if entry level, hold onto your job for dear life and hoard savings.
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>>1573
this is solved by boomer dying

when I was younger I never understood how people kill their parents, now I get it

Sad that it's the young, entry level workers who are getting fucked as predicted. There is literally no bottom rung of the ladder anymore. I look at people age 18 to 30 in my life and most of them are truly broke. I'm 30 and I only have one friend who owns a home and it's a modest one he needed a partner to afford.

dunno if this is the right thread, but does it seem like tech jobs are picking back up to anyone else? is AI not convincing managers anymore?

>>1605
my feel in the tech industry is that nobody has the money to rehire to previous levels or expand. it's lean times for the orgs that buy software and their IT depts, lots of cost cutting and penny pinching right now, and that means lean times for the software sellers

>>1705
Well no, but that seems true of every industry barring healthcare, we ARE in a recession right now after all. People are struggling to decouple the recession numbers from the AI numbers but I don't think anyone has cobbled together a convincing picture yet



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At nearly 30 I got my first job, a dead end job in a supermaket from a huge chain in my country
It is only for a week but they might permanently contract you
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One more tip: Unlike online jobs, this is a great chance to hone your rhetorical skills.

You are always in contact with many comrade employees. Improve your social skills, and you will even be able to engage customers on socialist ideas.

Eventually, you will overthrow your boss to create the Socialist Democrat Soviet Republic of Walmart, when american civil war #2 starts.

>>1613
Been in the grocery game for 15 years now, get out before its too late. By late I mean injured. I've seen lots of people that get hurt over the years and end up stuck here

>>1613
Last day is today, I'm completely exhausted both physically and mentally, I'm in pain in my entire body, especially lower back and knees, I don't know how people put up to this shit because I'm fucked up in a week let alone a month

>>1639
never worked as a cashier I see

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>>1639
Not to mention, i like the super market
It has stuff i like
Like yum yums. I remember working Wal-Mart and would just eat breakfast there. Skittles and monster coffee. That was my breakfast and i liked it. No twat mom to tell me that isn't a meal.

I liked organizing the aisles. I put this box on the shelf. No faggot boss is gonna go out of their way to tell me I'm putting it on the shelf wrong (some will still try…) There's no optics over how i put cereal on the aisle shelf. Ain't noone gonna be sued because the cereal called someone a racial slur or pushed them. (I might though lol)

Same even with cleaning. I mean people are nasty, but cleaning up aisles is fine. Oh your kid vomited? Thats ok. His diet is composed of sunshine, lollipops, and the belief that there's still good in the world. He doesn't goon all day, pretend to be a femboy "not like other girls teehee" than ghost you the minute he gets your cum like a fucking succubus demon. This is why LGBT face violence, this is why Jeffrey Dahmer existed.

Work isn't what makes jobs unbearable…people are.
Not some random ass customer.
Not someone bringing in their cute little dog.
Not even some belligerent crackhead.
The people I see every mother fucking day and still gotta argue with, deal with gas lighting and downright lies. I guess the "we're like a family" part is true. So like family I'm not above throwing a beer bottle at them and pulling their hair out.



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I've gotten ghosted by two employers before even reaching the phone interview stage. What the fuck even is the US job market at this point? Both were jobs I'm very well qualified for and don't even paying a living wage. Why the fuck would you reach out to me to schedule an interview and then never confirm a time? Are they fucking punishing us? Is this a humiliation ritual?

Job interviews are like dating.

the modern job market requires you to be persistent across 3+ months of searching, to always expect the worst, to apply to every role you can, to dedicate at least one hour each day to job searching, and to not let the futility of it all crush you in the process

>>1646
And then these same employers complain about how “nobody wants to work anymore”

>>1647
they are worse because you need to convince 5-10 people instead of just one person



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>blue collar
pays like shit, leaves you exhausted, will kill you
>retail and customer-facing
pays like shit, you basically endure abuse or idiocy for eight hours a day
>pink collar and healthcare
can pay very well but the hours are insane and you also have to endure abuse constantly
>white collar work
best-case scenario, pays well, but you're still sitting through 4-hour meetings of nothing but bullshit and wasting your life away in front of a computer
i know i'm missing something because i don't understand how wagies aren't constantly miserable 90% of the time.
yes, sometimes you get a job you just inherently vibe with, or you get to work on something you're actually proud of, like you save someone's life or you help in the construction of a nice useful building
but all of that is rare. the rest of the wagies, do they just dissociate and swallow it down? is it just genuinely not that bad from their point of view?
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>>1693
People like you are why capitalism needs to be overhtrown

>>1694
lol neets can't save up more than a thousand dollars at a time in the US SSI program. That sounds awful to be frank.

>>1699
Maybe I'm talking more about someone that works for a bit and saves money through living with parents. By working for a bit you could hopefully keep your parents off your back for a bit and then you work for a bit and then neet for a bit. I suppose there are ways you could hide money when on ssi so you could have more than a thousand dollars. This system incentives cheating anyways.

>>1700
Actually now that I think about it more it's not just our current system but maybe the world in general really gives incentives to cheat and be underhanded.

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>>1700
I have been living on my own for almost 2 years in a tiny apartment. The only way I could afford this place was because I had a good job at the time. I nearly lost everything when I lost my job. Fortunately my father has his pension from the factory job, or I would never have been able to keep this place.

Computers are stupid and H1B ruined any chance I had in the industry anyway. I'm going to become a CNA working with elderly folk and the mentally ill. At least I would be making a difference despite being overworked and underappreciated. There is a shortage of male CNAs and nurses. My nurse friend is going to be a huge help to me. He knows I can do it.

Point here being that there is no shame in getting help if it is available. Not all neets are parasites, I'm thinking of the ones that point the finger and go HURR WAGIE WAGIE who will all die bitter and unloved. There is no shame in staying with your parents or on public aid. But remember anons, you really shouldn't celebrate the neet life. Don't get sent to the lithium mines, start learning NOW.

Sorry but its the truth. Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go snuggle my boyfriend and cook him breakfast.



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>Literally put Epstein as a referral on my resume
>With a phone number that's just my number but if they call it imma pretend to be Epstein and say if they don't hire that cute fellow he's gonna eat their kids like some sorta Krampus fairy tail
>Also I'm married to Christa Pike, don't ask how that works considering she's been in prison for like 20 years. But I am in fact an ordained minister, that's completely true so there's nothing legally stopping me from marrying us because I fucking say so

Schizo dlc on capitalism gonna hit harder than warlock on diablo 2



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Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?

Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?


Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.

I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.

I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.

I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.

School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design

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>>1561
Yes, repeatedly, but there's no country on earth where the educational outputs seem in line with the time inputs, even before you factor in the senseless imprisonment-like elements.

It's a culture of anti-intellectualism which is seeded by bourgeois propaganda and spread by ignorant dolts. This whole notion that labor and the fostering of intellect should be seen as two separate, even mutually exclusive activities is absurd.

>>1586
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the natural sciences and engineering are examples of "how the real world works". Those illiterate tradesmen were following orders from actual engineers who, you know, move beyond middle school education.


>>1600
Again, I have met more "illiterate" tradesmen who get more done than people who merely studied engineering exclusively in academic settings for years.

>>1599
>Anti-intellectualism

More anti-trades although intellectual pursuits are often glamorizes to make the nation seem more enlightened than they are.

School serves a big factor in capitalism: it frees up women to do labor.
The increase wage pressure that comes from a doubled labor pool more than makes up for the money spent on school.

School also serves as a way of cultural homogenization, breaking up ethnicities and absorbing smaller groups into the mainstream worldview. Basic assumptions like "rich people are awesome!" or "Arbeit Macht Frei!" is drilled into the youth, leading many to adopt capitalist logic in adult life without knowing "why" it feels "right".

Also, schooling can be very unequal, and in most parts of the world it's segregated economically. The poor people's kids go to poor schools, where the poisoned social environment encourages stupidity. The people with money move to neighborhoods or pay for private schools where the other middle-class kids are, and where an environment of good behavior and (slightly better) learning takes place.
The rich kids go to school with all other rich kids for super networking.



 

Can't do trades. My back and shoulders are fucked from having worked in the trades. My friends in tech say it is completely jeeted and that they haven't found work in almost two years.

>>1649
i cant help you anon but i was wondering the same thing. i thought civil engineering would be nice since things will always have to be built and maintained, but once it all gets outsourced if that happens im not sure my body would be able to handle construction

Unpopular opinion:every job is potentially on the chopping block due to outsourcing, automation, or a combination of both. No job is safe. Everyone should unionize.
Life is short and wage labor under capitalism is a fuck.
Do whatever you want.

>>1649
It's all messed up. Having a degree doesn't guarantee anything, even in STEM. It's all a gamble really.

>>1649
just get into a trade
>>1651
>all jobs are equally as bad
lol sure, is that why unionization rates are inversely related to average wage in like 99% of cases

>>1653
>just get into a trade
read it again



 

>gov't subsidizes student loans
>colleges jack up tuition prices
>outsource jobs anyway

The only power they have is scarcity. Employers do everything they can to eradicate that scarcity through immigration and outsourcing, so employees retaliating with collective action is fair game.
It's all just a big brawl between interests, there's no "real" equilibrium, and treating it as justified when one side does it but unfair when the other does makes you a fucking retard
fucking retarded



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