Where has all the time gone?

Now there's a giant gap in trained specialists with nobody to replace soon-to-be retirees which leads to outsourcing of a lot of jobs, ESPECIALLY blue collar ones

anyways, the number of people working as employees of restaraunts has been holding steady since 2016:

[x]

and to be clear, that's not number per capita, that's the raw number. and given that the swedish population has been growing precipitously since 2016, [x] this means the number of food industry workers per capita has been going down since 2016. where exactly is this massive rush toward the restaraunt industry you claim is occurring?

but hey, let's be charitable here, maybe the shift you describe had already occurred long before the chart begins- well, then in that case, we should still see a larger percentage of the population working in the food industry than, say, the usa, where "burger flippers" are paid poverty wages?

well that should be easy enough to figure out, we've got 101,986 restaurant industry workers in sweden, against a 10,415,811 population, for 0.979% of the population working in restaurants. now compare that to 12.1 million restaraunt workers in the usa, [x] against a population of 331.9 million, giving us..... 3.645% of the population. over 3 times higher. whoops.

not to mention your claims of workers rushing toward fast food is incongruous both with the booming tech sector in sweden, [x] while your claim that younger people in sweden aren't bothering to get college degrees or other forms of tertiary education being contradicted by the reality that 46% of swedes between 25 and 34 have completed teriary education, in contrast to 32% between 45-54, or 30% between the ages of 55-64. for the record, 46% of 25-34 year olds have completed teriatry education in the usa, 43% for 45-54 year olds, and 41% for 55-64 year olds. an increase, but not as large as sweden's. so, again, more empirical proof that you're a liar.

but what really gets to me isn't that you lie, flagrantly, and expect no one to check or notice. flagrant liars are a dime a dozen. it's the reason that you choose to lie. all this dishonesty, just so you can tell everybody about how people just out of high school, who don't have the money or free time to invest in college or trade school, don't deserve to "live comfortably". not that they don't deserve to live extravagantly, not that they don't deserve to live extravagantly, no, that they don't deserve to live comfortably, that average regular working class people deserve to live in discomfort, that single moms just out of high school- and their children- deserve to live uncomfortable, unhappy lives.

since when are consumer choices free from moral judgement? like, think about what you are saying here for one second.

However in the same vein, people tend to neglect the fact that lack of access to produce or plant-based alternatives cause a slew of problems for people as well. 60% of the world is lactose intolerant and dairy consumption has been directly linked to prostate cancer, which is the number one cancer for African American men (and transwomen and nonbinary ppl with these parts), yet dairy milk is available in public schools, gas stations and most cornerstores but plant-based alternatives are difficult to find.

Chronic illnesses that wrack up medical bills like type-2 diabetes, hypertension and high blood pressure can oftentimes be reversed with a healthy plant-based diet, yet fastfood is easily accessible in food deserts but farmer’s markets or access to healthy alternatives are not, for many people especially BIPOC who do not have the land or the means to do so. Many farmer’s market pop-ups avoid these places, they neglect these places.

Livestock runoff is more likely to reduce the air quality and water quality of low income areas that are also oftentimes primarily located in places with high BIPOC density, due to environmental racism.

Neglecting the Intersectional Vegans, and playing Devil’s advocate: you can hate on The Vegan Teacher and James Aspey, and every other douchebag vegan under the sun.

Vegans still make up less than 2% of the population.

Vegans don’t decide which places get access to a vast variety of higher quality food.

But Animal Products and Animal Agriculture directly harms minorities and poor people.

AniAg is racist and classist.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.