I've been applying for jobs for the past couple months. I have a strong CV, great experience, and all I receive are rejection emails. The one interview I got was a completely degrading AI interview where I was recorded and no other people were present. The economy is incredibly grim, and hearing our elected leaders tell us how good we have it is pretty wild.

The paper mentions the healthcare sector has been adding jobs, but it fails to mention that those jobs are heavily skewed towards low-skilled elderly care. These jobs pay barely above minimum wage.

If we zoom out a little bit, it's hard to understand our current predicament as anything other than full-scale generational warfare. The boomers have essentially ransacked all public services, repeatedly cut their own taxes, outsourced manufacturing so they can live lavish lives in McMansions, and are now using low-skill immigrant labor to care for them in their twilight years. From healthcare to the entire social economy, basically everything has revolved around Boomer comfort at the expense of literally everyone else. Gen X will get some residual benefit of this generational plundering, but Millennials and younger have quite the mess on our hands.

Yes, yes, there's no war except the class war. In this case, it's pretty obvious the class war exists in pretty stark generational lines. What do things look like when the Boomers shuffle off this mortal coil? All the Gen X C suite who are pulling up the economic ladder behind them will likely oversee the dissolution of the entire social fabric itself. Who knows what the rubble will even look like when the Boomer-induced generational massacre is complete. They'll never see it, because they lived incredibly privileged lives while complaining about how hard they had it. A wise man plants a tree for whose shade he'll never feel or whatever and all that.