Is there a scenario where lifetime paycheck employment re-emerges as the dominant middle-class model within the next 30 years?
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Probably not. What you describe is based upon three things:1) dominance of US industry post World War2 2)) cheap oil, 3). Labor unions and capital agreeing to compromise for benefit of society
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.... Communism? I mean, just because a lot of people are indoctrinated into believing that's what will save society, I don't see it happening...
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Sure. Get enough exploited workers together and they can restart an effective labor movement. 100 years ago it was pretty bleak for the average worker, more than now.
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Complacent Facebook/Amazon/Google/Apple employees? As these companies become more staid and stable they attract employees with intra-institutional instincts rather than entrepreneurial ones.
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Tech changes jobs, sure, but more than a little of the precarity we see today is artificially and cynically injected into the system by the owner class.
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Increasing hegemony of FAANG with Graeberian feudal bullshitization for no other reason than to dampen the wealth disparity.
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Maybe? What steps might ppl take to bring that outcome about? Is it even a desirable goal?
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One degenerate case: middle class shrinks to single digits % of population; majority employed by a few orgs that are wildly inefficient (Spectrum et al), navigating their bureaucracy requires years of experience.
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