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> Most people aren’t in tech or law or teaching in universities; they fall solidly in what is called working-class. They work as electricians, carpenters, plumbers, in hospitals, restaurants, as clerks, office managers, farmers, etc. I'm surprised that he's surprised by this. Even in SV you can have a reality check, if you just deign to strike up a conversation with the cooks and the bus drivers and the janitors who…
1. Ever increasing regulatory burden (basically increasing government)
2. Ever increasing self-imposed diversity burden within corporations (few productive people dragging up a bunch of SJW redistributors)
Second sentence starts with: > We have a summer home ... Is this common for people living inside the tech bubble?
this is what i think about every time a politician, journalist or economist says that the answer for all these workers is government funding for "job training."
Replace this with "coal bubble" in WV, "oil bubble" in SD, "Hollywood bubble" in LA, etc. etc. etc. or just title these "20-something learns there's a world outside their immediate environment and boy howdy is it different."
Replace this with "coal bubble" in WV, "oil bubble" in SD, "Hollywood bubble" in LA, etc. etc. etc. or just title these "20-something learns there's a world outside their immediate environment and boy howdy is it different."
Replace this with "coal bubble" in WV, "oil bubble" in SD, "Hollywood bubble" in LA, etc. etc. etc. or just title these "20-something learns there's a world outside their immediate environment and boy howdy is it different."
He should rename this to "Working outside the millionaire bubble". Plenty of people in tech feel the squeeze too. What it comes down to is that a lot of people with money have lost touch with the rest.
There's some texture and nuance to this statement. I remember on NPR, they interviewed a lady whom mentioned similar sentiments; her and her husband had built a family, worked in the blue-collar industry (precision machining) for decades, and now were losing their jobs. She also mentioned that they had been living in a small town for a long, long time.
That last part bothers me a lot. It seems a lot of people just don't want to move. Anecdotally I've moved nearly 6 times in the last 8 years. My parents have done the same.
People are stuck on this idea of living and dying in the same city once they buy a home or have children. That just isn't the case anymore.
Mobility and a willingness to learn new skills seems to prevail. It's what other generations have done, millions of immigrants (my parents included).