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A couple years ago, it was kinda rare for me to encounter someone w multiple jobs. Now it's the norm. Mostly everyone around me, including myself, work 2+ jobs to get by. Wtf.
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Anonymous 1d

The American dream

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Anonymous 22h

It was like that a couple years ago. Govt regulations on health insurance a few other things make giving such things a requirement to people working 40+ hours a week incentivizes small businesses to give people less than 40 hours a week don’t have to organize and pay out the premiums for such things. (It’s more complicated than I can explain in one paragraph)

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Anonymous 1d

Probably because you’re not skilled enough to get a real job

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

I work as a chemist at a company making over 20 an hour Most of my coworkers who make more than me have 2 jobs, because they have families

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 21h

Oh no you're in for a very rude awakening once you enter the real world 😬 I'm scared for you bro this is so out of touch, you aren't at all ready for present reality

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21h

I have several friends that had to leave their 'career jobs' to work 2 service industry jobs to get by bc the 'real jobs' weren't cutting it. I'm trying to do both (I'm going to 💀 this is not maintainable)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

Strangely enough I had more fun (didn’t make quite as much money, but I made more than most “real jobs” in my part time job) There’s certainly some kind of economic shift happening that the bureaucracy doesn’t appear to be the means of healing whatever this is. If you come up with ideas though, both I and several others would love to hear them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 18h

Well, they do, just not realistically. Businesses are being squeezed due to the rising costs (rent, utilities, health insurance, food, drink, etc). Naturally, they jump to cut corners, smaller staff, pay less, etc. Which leads to significantly more work than ever being dumped on people for the same pay/benefits, or even worse. Meanwhile, THEIR rent/utilities/food/everything is also being very jacked up. Already overworked and exhausted from og job 1 which is no longer enough to support them-

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 18h

So from there, they need more work. Or they fall into an extremely dark place. Now people are generally overworked, miserable, angry, and exhausted, including managers/bosses/ppl with high responsibilities/etc. Which triggers hindered/rash + greedy/selfish decision making from upper-tiers. Which makes everything worse. And that's only one facet of it all. There are hundreds of interconnecting variables and causes of how bad everything is/getting. Ts requires insane precision and a delicate touch

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 18h

To pause and then begin to ease. That's not happening nor is it going to happen. So when one takes a step back to consider the near-future where all is left to continue like this. It's extremely stress/panic/misery/despair inducing. Which still worsens everything.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 17h

This might sound dark but apparently all the cities with mass deportations, go figure, the rent is dropping. If it’s anything like the Middle Ages and the plague (only, ya know… bunch of people aren’t dying they are just getting deported) there should be a boom in wages for experienced labor of all industries to follow. It always starts with little things, and yeah it seems like an economic siege of sorts, but everything you mentioned I would be willing to bet is tracked by AI. At 1/2

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 17h

2/2 a certain point. People break. Just stop coming into work. And again, strangely enough, I don’t imagine it can be permitted for America to fail like that. We are the number one food exporter in the world. If enough people snap, and it causes a chain reaction that touches the agricultural/transportation & logistics sector, it triggers a global famine that would collapse the world economy. Believe it or not, it would seem the AI knows the “rich” need us, far more than we need rich people.

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