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The Lost Generation essay
The first half of this post is what I was getting at with the discussion on mitigating circumstances. The article lightly touched on the transition from traditional to digital media and the relatively shrinking number of jobs but completely ignored the fact that 67% of new college grads with Communications degrees were women which just happened to match the new hire rate that he cited in the article.
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The Lost Generation essay
@Bozo_Casanova now that I’ve read more of your posts I suspect the things you saw in the tech industry were significantly affected by more than just the diversity efforts. This could be a whole thread on just the tech industry but I’ll say a little here. We can blame diversity across the board but in tech it was a double whammy with H1B making it even harder on white males and it wasn’t for diversity reasons even though it might look like it was. It was economic because it was cheaper to bring in people on visas, pay the legal bills, and then cut the salary by the amount of the immigration fees and hold it over the employee’s head like an indentured servant for stability. It can look like a diversity play where non-white male people start filling more roles but I don’t think it was. I worked in a lot of roles that required security clearances for decades and was insulated from the impacts in the broader tech workforce and when I switched to non-defense work it was eye-opening.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
I’m pretty sure the song is older but reminds me of Born in East LA
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Compensation & WFH debate ($120K vs 240K)
I read through a lot of these and think the way it is framed is conflating the message. Think about your current situation and then reverse it based on your numbers. Would you do that? If you work in office for 240K a year, would you give up half to work from home or if you work from home for 120K a year would you change and go in the office for double? Right now I am in the office making a good salary and would not take the cut because I have kids in school, but reduce those expenses and I might delay retirement to work from home for half my salary.
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Markets still falling like whoa
Same for me, it’s not the tariffs it’s the uncertainty/instability - taco tariffs and trade wars are are one of the signs
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The Lost Generation essay
I did not see any mitigating circumstances which was one of my complaints. Put all his energy into the life’s not fair and I’m a victim argument.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
Tech grads?
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
I read an article on the birth rate issue a month back. The teen pregnancy rate has dropped significantly which is great, but the fertility rate among women 20-24 also took a major hit and the growth has been in the 35-39 and 40-44 populations. This shift creates a few problems in that the delayed fertility means that instead of family generations being spaced 20-30 years apart they are shifting later. This means that instead of having 3 generations in a 75 year span you only get 2 or less. This compounds the population growth rate issue.
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The Lost Generation essay
Yes, I have seen it in technology services but that is an even more complicated story. You have to add in that the US does not graduate enough people with tech degrees to meet demand so there is the whole H1B and offshoring issue that could have been addressed if more people had decided to get technical degrees or training. If you made some posts in another thread on this topic about that experience I did not see it so sorry if I'm not addressing the points you found most pertinent.
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The Lost Generation essay
I think it would have resonated more in roles where men are actually a majority of the new talent pool. Citing media, communications, etc. when two thirds of new graduates since 1983 are women is kind of stacking the deck. Using an anecdote about individuals getting passed by when all the new talent it an outgoing tide against you and just citing the outputs without the inputs, I can't take the argument seriously. I do agree that it can radicalize men but they are not pursuing college degrees at the same rate as women in an increasingly information-based economy. This is the coal miners complaining that there aren't any great coal jobs anymore when if they want to work in energy they should be joining the navy to get nuke training and move where the jobs are.
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The Lost Generation essay
I think there is definitely an impact of the diversity push and I think diversity is valid from a perspective of understanding the audience you need to have people that represent that audience. But as a person that loves to look at data I find some really interesting things in the article. A few quotes: Take issue with "overwhelmingly" when the stats are 57-43 and "majority male" which is anything over 50%, so technically half +1. First assuming that we go from 57-43 to 49-51 over 5 years, that is not as drastic as I think he wants it to be. Not to mention that most of that shift came from new hires in entry level positions so how would that happen. He talks a lot about the hiring/demand side of the equation but only skirts the supply side. The percentage of the US population with a college degree by gender flipped from being majority male to majority female in 2014. This was driven by recent graduation numbers. As of 2024 college bachelor's degree rates among 25-34 year olds is 47% for females, and 37% for males. So you could assume that in fields without a heavy male bias that women would be graduating at an even higher rate than men. I would put the media roles he focuses on in that likely to outpace the general population which is backed up by this really cool animated chart that says by 2022 women made up 63.7% of all bachelor's degrees in communication. Seriously, click on that link. It shows that only 33% of Communications majors were women in 1970s, hovered around 60% from 1983 through 2010s and then up to two thirds after that. "Nearly two-thirds" sounds really close to that 63.7% of new college graduates figure I posted above so the hiring is matching the new graduate pool from the previous link. At this point I skimmed the rest and then got tired of reading.
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Trump’s America
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Except for the sprinkle of shit in it that was a great ice cream sundae!- Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
This is what I'm here for, I'm waiting for the Johnny Football laying on a swan in a pool chugging from a bottle stage.- BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
We need another "Surly" response option with an angry highland cow.- The Trump Economy
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The tariffs are applied to raw materials too. The US does not grow latex, it is all imported. All tires that include latex) I think it's all of them, there are synthetic/petroleum sources but I think all tires have at least a blend) have the tax. If they were made offshore then they would be taxed on the final product too. I bought my new tires in January because of this even though they were made in USA because the latex came from southeast Asia.- Boom M'Fer T Shirts - Second Run
pics of shirt not showing up but I think I know the one you're talking about.- Dan Bongino Wants Republicans to Have Their Own Safe Spaces
Trump was not kicking back any of the Pardon money to the FBI for bringing the charges.- Dan Bongino Wants Republicans to Have Their Own Safe Spaces
He's resigning. https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/dan-bongino-leaving-fbi- Markets still falling like whoa
Self directed but I bought in a year ago based on several factors like inflation, concern about a market reset, and others. All in ETF- Melania Trump -- Not a Fan of Christmas
Quoting for the new page I had to scroll back for this goodness.- Markets still falling like whoa
Took some profits on my Silver etf because the historical carts are always needle shaped but still holding up.- Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
How many FG did Arch have?
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