Who do you socialise with in Europe?! I’m a dual national and regularly spend time in 3 European cities and 8+ US cities. To be honest, it’s the US that’s devoid of culture and European culture is very much there and deep rooted.
The way the US generally does housing and land use planning leads to a lot of vanishing of culture, specially in urban areas.
The same 8 lane stroads with the same super box stores and fast food chains. All connected with the same type of highway to a bunch of single family homes with little low level commercial or cultural activity.
Making someone feel seen and heard is a skill…if one doesn’t have that in their family or friendship group then that is a real shame. I believe that nuance was missed in your analogy.
It’s odd, because Islam preaches ‘bodily purity’ but repeated cousin marriage rapidly causes the accumulation of significant genetic defects - so you’d think religion would steer culture towards better beliefs and practices concerning that.
Yeah, my post was ambiguous - I was wondering why people who followed Islam retained a cultural practice which seems at odds with the religious principles of physical and ritual purity.
> so you’d think religion would steer culture towards better beliefs and practices concerning that.
If we were to take into account what would influence a family to practice marriage between cousins in excess (which is largely a preoccupation with material wealth and status), then it does.
Yes but if you are management and you have been wanting to make changes and cut the fat, it was previously difficult to do layoffs without extensive negative coverage. Now you can do it and fly under the radar so it may be opportunistic in nature.
They retrained and got reallocated to the new hot sectors (how many people work in tech now vs. in 2008?), or they joined the pool of unskilled labor, or they dropped out of the labor force.
The economy is always changing - new more-productive ways of doing stuff get invented, relative prices change, consumer tastes shift. Layoffs & rehiring is the economy's way of redirecting employees away from unproductive, unprofitable work and into new careers that are better adapted to the times. Your mental model of what a career looks like needs to include leaving jobs (and if you don't do it proactively, it may be done for you) and shifting your efforts into new work that is more adapted to the times.
Yes, for the most part new jobs were created and those people eventually got hired. The unemployment rate has been low for several years. But the labor force participation rate did decline slightly. Some people retired early, or chose to stay at home.
I feel like people really just got used to the world after 2008.maybe I'm misremebering. Before 2008 everyone was going to college because it was a guaranteed job after you graduate. Then the financial crash happened and it became hard for everyone to get jobs. Then we got cynical about college
We got cynical about college also because the costs spiraled way faster than incomes or prices for other things were rising. Colleges never lay people off, they keep expanding their administrative bureaucracy, all funded by growing student enrollment and easy student loans.
Student enrollment is going to start falling (demographics as well as more people questioning the value) and colleges are going to be in for a world of hurt because they don't know how to tighten their belts.
University Problem: Students are complaining about insufficient parking on-campus.
University Solution: Wipe out 1/4 of the available parking space to build a shiny new library, renovate the old library - turning it into a "student life center" nobody knew they needed, then triple the price for student parking permits and require all freshmen to live in the overpriced on-campus housing.
that's not how i remember it. we had a whole over employed thing for years, people always said unemployment numbers werent accurate because of that, the meme of people getting degrees and serving coffee etc..
community college and public schools without dorming are ~3k a semester. california is $46/credit for 736 for 16 credits.
>> “Comments by Home Depot Inc. co-founder Bernie Marcus that “nobody works, nobody gives a damn,””
Corporates have been squeezing employee who give a damn…with little in the way of pay rises. Corporate profits and stock prices have been off the charts while people struggle to look after their families if they can even afford to start one altogether!
Companies need to adapt and start actually rewarding hard work…and I don’t just mean giving out employee of the month awards..I mean cash money…
First company I worked for, I worked hard and was rated star of project out of 40 people…I was training people on a super technical project who had 10-15 years of more experience than me. I was client facing and traveling to sites in multiple countries. The company was hiring people for $8k more than my salary with similar experience to me (Java and security clearance). After 1.5 yrs had my first pay rise of $400 for the year…what a joke.
I received a job offer in finance and for almost double my salary….told my employer I was leaving. They asked what can we do to keep you and I said you can double my salary…and the project manager said yes..to be honest I didn’t believe them.
Since then I’ve gone on to work at different companies for good pay but little upside since the companies were not growing (often shrinking!). This makes it difficult to get promoted as quickly since the organisations are not growing so senior management ranks stagnant and no one leaves and new roles are not created. Right now there’s no incentive to me working hard…it won’t make a meaningful difference.
Doesn’t necessarily apply to every industry… sure to a growing sector like software then maybe yes. In other parts of the economy, teams can have fixed sizes and budgets. This means no wiggle room to bring in new people. I manage a team but can’t hire a new full time person right now…I would put resumes in a pile..
Look at your pension….in the UK, if you’re in the 40% tax bracket and with the tax relief, you’ll get an instant return on your money of 67%…the downside is the lock in.
