Posted on 08/16/2025 10:04:52 AM PDT by RandFan
@KobeissiLetter
Are we on the verge of a generational jobs crisis?
The 3-month average youth underemployment rate jumped to 17% in July, the highest since 2020.
This metric includes unemployed individuals aged 16–24.
Now, the youth underemployment rate has climbed by ~5 percentage points over the last 2 years.
This is nearly in line with the peak during the 2001 recession and the early stages of the 2008 Financial Crisis.
This also signals the US labor market could weaken further, with young workers typically the first to feel the impact when the economy turns.
The job market is rapidly deteriorating.
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Correct but we still have many vacancies in certain fields. Especially in healthcare and trades.
I know.... times are changin ‘
All we are doing is indoctrinating a generation into voting for the Democratic Party and thinking that "communism is a good thing".
So maybe it's a blessing that the whole system is falling apart.
Yup. Some STEM colleges have been partially affected (the one I graduated from did), but that got corrected very quickly. Math (behind all STEM) doesn’t care about race etc. despite the left saying math is racist etc.
“Machinists, electricians, plumbers, most any traditional trade will be their best bet.”
Until robots get cost effective and matched with AI.
Then those jobs will be on the chopping block.
What are you going to do then?
Now break down the numbers for the 19 to 24 year olds...I suspect the numbers would be different. 16 to 18 year olds are for the most part still in high school and will work minimum part time jobs on their summers off. I suspect the 16 to 18 year old skew the numbers real high. then add in the students who are 18 to 22 who are in colleg and may be in and out of jobs due to their schooling.
The statistics appear bogus in terms of their real world impact.
“Machinists, electricians, plumbers, most any traditional trade will be their best bet.”
There are 30 million competitors that need to leave the country first. And then there’s the H1Bs.
Unskilled labor....that's not your competition if you are in a skilled trade.
Around here many are boondocking and/or part-timing. They do a few things for cash. Full-time jobs are going unfilled because they don’t want them.
“””How many young people just aren’t willing to do relatively crummy jobs to get some experience, and bide time while they move up?””””
Many of them are just a waste of good oxygen. They never had to do anything and spent their lives on the couch playing video games and stuck to the phone. Mommys basement is safe so why bother working?
A lot of them have never had to deal with adversity and learn to grow and develop from it, either. They seem to lack the flexibility of character to deal with setbacks and exercise patience.
Illegals, child labor laws and technology (think fast food kiosks) all contribute to young people not having jobs. Plus probably over protective parents.
No. AI provides a handy excuse to deflect blame from people who are causing the problems. At best, AI demonstrates that way too many jobs are actually useless in an economy based on financial tricks and marketing deceptions. And those jobs are useless with or without AI systems.
We are seeing the economy in turmoil because of decades of bad decisions by the ruling elites throughout the West. Those bad decisions mostly continue and won't stop until the people making them are gone.
Are we on the verge of a generational jobs crisis?
We are well past the verge. We are in it. The new jobs for the new generations do not pay enough to live on at the scale of previous generations. That is true in America and in Europe.
Gen-Z is screwed. The smarter ones know it; the others can feel it. They are also the ones who will be stuck picking up the pieces and putting them back together in some kind of new system. They will do that too. There are some very smart, very tough people hidden in the new generation and they will show themselves as circumstances expose them.
I don't know what the replacement system will be. Nobody really does. It looks like we are going to do the entire socialism, fascism, communism dance again with a new portion of Islam in the steps. Whatever the result may be will have fewer people dancing to the tune as it plays out.
Look for it to get worse.
Democrat party supporting people are a pain
in the ass and given modern technology,
many “white collar” and blue collar factory
jobs can be replaced by a machine, thus they will be.
Societie’s problem is what to to do
with all these relatively low mental
ability voters that have been displaced by machines?
High producers will tire of supporting people that vote against the high producers interests.
We will “Balkanize”. Many science fiction
stories have been written on this subject.
Many may come true.
unlike defective machines we don’t or can’t
get rid of “defective” humans so we are stuck
with idiots that have rights.
Optimistic, all true and well said.
Thank you.
How many jobs have dems eliminated with high minimum wage laws?
Let them bake cake.
I agree.
I think there are also interesting male/female aspects to the current transition.
I think the current economic turmoil hits men harder than women. Women have advantages right now. But how happy are they about that? Do the strong, independent women really want to work 40 hours a week and sacrifice their lives for careers? They have been indoctrinated to think this is ideal for them. But I think there is evidence that women want this a little less than they are “supposed” to.
And women want to marry a man who is above them in social/economic status. Well, that’s going to be pretty hard.
So we’re looking at single women with careers they don’t want, and we’re looking at men with no path to the American Dream. I don’t know how it will all play out, but I don’t think anyone is really happy with the direction that things are going.
You’ve first got to eliminate human labor if you want to eliminate humans.
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