Millennials' Jobs Getting Outsourced to Their Grandparents

The Los Angeles Times ran a story titled “Freelance Workers a Growing Segment of California Economy” lamenting that millennials working part-time costs California $17 billion a year in tax revenue. Apart from the Times' bizarre comment that young people are somehow shirking their responsibility to pay more taxes by working odd jobs to survive, the real issue is that higher tax rates, labor rules and anti-business regulations, and Obamacare mandates have made hiring millennials for full-time work much more expensive. Businesses are increasingly adapting to higher government costs burdens by hiring the over 65-year-old seniors who are exempt from ObamaCare.

The Obama Administration likes to crow that all the American jobs have been recovered since he took office. That is sort of true, but the potentially employable population of the United States has grown by 10 million since he took office. That means that there are at least 6 million more Americans that want to work, but are unable to find employment.

To understand why millennials are losing ground, dshort.com website publishes a demographic breakdown of U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate percentages for over 25-year-olds since the demobilization in 1948 after WWII. Dshort excludes 16-24 to avoid the rising number of people who now attend college. They focus on the 25-64 age grouping as the traditional period of “productive work force” before retirement.

What the data reveals is that the labor force participation rose steadily from 62% of Americans age 25-64 in 1948 to 80% in 2008. During that timesame period, male employment fell from 95% to 86% and female employment age 25-64 rose dramatically from 32% to 72%.

Apart from the Times' bizarre comment that young people are somehow shirking their responsibility to pay more taxes by working odd jobs to survive What's bizarre about that?

Liberals think we all exist to serve government.

In other words, they're Feudalists who think of themselves as aristocracy, and we owe them.

Millennials’ coming into the job market feel the need to be fulfilled by their jobs. A good paycheck and learning skills isn’t so important. They want to network, have a lot of variety and socialize.

Millennials’ are failing to understand that a job means making money for your employer pure and simple. You must more than earn your keep simple as that. Everything else is a result of that one simple thing.

Millennials’ are failing to understand that a job means making money for your employer pure and simple.

Furthermore, they are not yet ready to understand that making money means feeding your kids, keeping a roof over their heads, paying for their education (hopefully private)

Millennials voted in large part for the Kenyan Fuehrer. Their poor choice killed retirement prospects for many baby boomers and so now all of us geezers are holding onto or getting their jobs to keep our own heads above water.

You voted for him kids (including my own) now either suck it up with reduced expectations or support us and suck up your reduced expectations.

Who you vote for has consequences.

“Furthermore, they are not yet ready to understand that making money means feeding your kids, keeping a roof over their heads, paying for their education (hopefully private)”

Many millenials are astute enough to know that children and houses are not in their future; they are competing not with American seniors, but Red Chinese and Indian millenials for jobs, and will always lose out (because they expect more than a bowl of rice for a day’s work). The demogrpahic nightmare that put Obama in office and kept him there is just beginning; the drop-off in American births is stark.

While many millenials are disgustingly liberal, I think you overestimate how many of them even bother to vote. Obama’s backbone of support came from beneficiaries of government spending (welfare, workfare); especially by the 2012 election, millenials knew they’d been duped.

You would be horrified at how many young people are completely apathetic politically.

Millenials do love money as much as anyone else; those who look for “fulfillment” or “socializing are the same breed as older workers who seek the same things (people who don’t need a paycheck as much as others do - because parents foot their bills and such).

Young people today are bombarded with advertisements selling them things they can only afford with a job.

Everyone wants money, the real issue is how they conduct themselves in the workplace. Volunteering for all the social functions conducted during work hours, networking, and life work balance programs don’t meet deadlines and produce products. The big thing now is rotation programs, and leadership tracks. This doesn’t develop in depth knowledge. Constant hand holding and fake positive feedback is the mantra now.

I thought those things disappeared with the Depression II; the solitaire players and other non-producers have been shown the door in most places. I think the millenials have had a few years to figure out that their jobs weren’t to benefit their self-image...

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