Any Millennials, Gen Xers care to pitch in on a question about working in a soulless society?

[Jedi Guy]

15. I'm right there with you about how I feel for these kids entering the workforce.

Things have never been great, but it's gotten so much worse over the last 25 or so years. Employers expect more, demand more, and anyone who doesn't deliver is given the side-eye. The culture of terror they create to keep people giving 110% is cruel, particularly since if it benefits their bottom line by even a tiny fraction, the pink slips go out in a storm and even those who give 110% aren't safe. The shareholders and C-Suite jackwagons don't give a damn.

Ordinarily the old (and I'm not even really old, I'm not 50 yet) envy the young. I pity them. I'm at least established enough in my career and have enough useful experience from previous positions that I'm fairly valuable, and I can do a fair few things well... but I never make the mistake of assuming I'm indispensable.

A friend of mine said something once that threw late-stage capitalism into sharp relief for me. He says it's a system that's designed to juice humans, extracting every last drop of usefulness and then casting them aside to begin the cycle anew. And he's right.

We could have made anything, and this is what we made. It's a damn shame.