[ID: Several screenshots of tweets by user Kurt Eichenwald. They read:
â"The Great Resignation" is not about people not wanting to work. It is about a dawning recognition that, for a larger and larger portion of this country, the American dream is dead, and with it, the inspiration of working toward a better future for oneself. Instead, workâŚ/1
ââŚbecomes not the means towards reaching an aspiration - a spouse, children, a home, vacations, personal growth, a retirement. Instead, the greed culture has turned work for millions into just a means of survival, with wages stagnant, healthcare unaffordable, insuranceâŚ.
ââŚ.treated as a luxury, paid free time an impossibility, children unaffordable, homes a dream. Yes, work is important - but not without the promise of a future. Many young people see nothing but 40 years of the same, further enriching the obscenely rich. This system hasâŚ
ââŚtaught people how to survive without, because they donât believe they will ever have. If they reasonably donât believe they will ever be able to afford a house or to raise children, and never will have group insurance or a paid vacation, and can make it living with theirâŚ
ââŚparents, and have already been taught by McResources (real thing) and Walmart how to apply for Food Stamps and Medicaid because those multibillion dollar corporations know they donât pay enough for their employees to survive, and are already getting those benefits, and âŚ.
ââŚhave the choice of just saying âforget it, im going to work on my painting or sewing or whatever, I am tired of being abused by my supervisor, I am tired of being screamed at by customers for things out of my control, I am tired of watching adults throw temper tantrums andâŚ
ââŚthen being balled out by my company because I could have handled it better. I can survive without all of this. I can be happier without all of this. I am paid so little, my life wonât be that different.â
âTHAT is why we have the Great Resignation. Because we, the BoomersâŚ.
ââŚhave endlessly sucked up the capital that could go down to the younger generations to enrich ourselves, then pushed down the debt. Entry level jobs that can be done with a high school education now demand college degrees, PLUS unpaid internship experience. So, to do mostâŚ.
ââŚanything with the possibility of a future, younger generations have to go to college. But to do it, they have to load up on debt. Then we sneer at them when they talk about how their terrible wages and horrible debt make home buying etc. impossible. Oh sure, the children ofâŚ
ââŚthe rich are fine. And their parents sneer âmaybe stop buying avocado toastâ as if a single pleasure in life equals the cost of a home. All of this starts and stops with greed and corporations. Pay more, and stop pulling up the ladder. Not all jobs need college degreesâŚ.
ââŚmany years ago, I interviewed Bill Clark, then the National Security Advisor under Reagan. After the interview, I asked him some background, and asked what college he got his degree from. Sheepishly, he said he didnt. Only had a high school degree. Thats the 1980s - theâŚ.
ââŚNational Security Advisor for the President of the United States had only a high school education. But I will bet anything, to be the social media voice at Wendyâs, no matter how funny you are, you have to be a college graduate with internships in social media etc etc. Not âŚ
ââŚall jobs need college degrees. Companies need to stop requiring them for jobs that donât. And they need to start paying fair wages. And treating people like human beings.
People never wanted to âwork.â They wanted to invest their effort toward living a better life. And if work doesnât do that, if work merely makes life worse to people who have been taught how to survive without wages so that McDonalds and Walmart et al can shift their wage costs onto taxpayers, then a Great Resignation was inevitable.â
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