tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post3473251758755134929..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Millennials: Weakness in Numbers?Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-46055921304272123582016-10-11T00:58:15.334-04:002016-10-11T00:58:15.334-04:00It could heavily depend on the job.
There's s...It could heavily depend on the job.<br /><br />There's some jobs where just being younger (thus stronger, more energy, etc) and less likely to be married is a big advantage. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-9201340917760403902016-10-10T12:31:38.673-04:002016-10-10T12:31:38.673-04:00I'm kind of waffling on whether I find the arg...I'm kind of waffling on whether I find the argument persuasive or not, for basically the reasons you outline.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-73080427716737730862016-10-07T14:28:57.784-04:002016-10-07T14:28:57.784-04:00To me, this feels more like an attempt to retroact...To me, this feels more like an attempt to retroactively pin reality on demographics rather than actually explain reality.<br /><br />For instance, in the early 90s when my oldest cousins--the oldest Gen Xers--were entering the job market, there was a recession and precious few entry-level openings. This was explained away by demographers by saying that Gen X was such a small generation, the baby bust, that the workforce didn't want to waste resources to train so few workers. It didn't scale so it wasn't worth starting new projects. I remember reading articles about how the economic lives of the baby busters would be compromised because the economy did not have to expand to accommodate us, unlike the Boomers.<br /><br />Later in the 90s during the tech boom, you could write your own ticket. During college, I knew people who had multiple offers before graduation. I also knew people who graduated a year or two later who couldn't buy a job offer. The demographics of young workers didn't drastically change in two years, but the economy sure did.<br /><br />I've known lots of struggling Gen Xers (myself included). It seems that those who hit the job market in those few magic years of prosperity have struggled much less than those a year or two out on either side. If you graduated in the early 90s, you struggled. If you graduated in the late 90s, you were set. If you graduated in the early 2000s, you were struggled. If you graduated into the housing bubble, you were set. If you graduated into the popping bubble, you were screwed.<br /><br />And now the Millenials are coming online to an economy that is rapidly shifting to gig work. They are reaping the rewards of being fed a lifetime of flying unicorns and an economy that is not currently hiring flying unicorns.<br /><br />I think the truth is less that business adapted to having fewer younger workers and now has to ramp up again and more that business stopped accommodating entry positions 30 years ago and the Millenials are the first set of workers large enough for the wider country to notice. Meanwhile, the Boomers will work forever.<br /><br />All that to say I am skeptical. Heh.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13472686909226073213noreply@blogger.com