Don't be fooled by low unemployment numbers, or wealth/situation of older, established people. Precarity spreading.https://twitter.com/felixgilman/status/717725492854595584 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted flglmn
Don't be fooled by low unemployment numbers, or wealth/situation of older, established people. Precarity spreading.https://twitter.com/felixgilman/status/717725492854595584 …
zeynep tufekci added,
64% of the electorate thinks " The old way of doing things no longer works and we need radical change." Wow.pic.twitter.com/827hkDrJWl
People are missing the picture because they focus on economic data which captures the past—not the jobs reality that is fueling the anxiety.
57% of the people think they are falling " further and further behind economically." These are huge proportions.pic.twitter.com/LGvPZNxJVr
US has many advantages. Rich vast area, large population, prints (and borrows using) global currency. Governance crises can undo all that.
"Lifelong training" wont save people, especially as they get older. Job training programs are have long, long been documented as failures.
Nothing against learning on the job or training for new jobs. Fine. It's just that it can't replace a social contract that sustains people.
Really not a good time. There is a global crisis of governance and legitimacy, massive elite failure and (not yet) effective challengers.
If unemployment is 5% and YET ~60% says they're falling behind economically & want radical change, we aren't looking at relevant indicators.
The poll I'm citing above is Quinnipiac, more data here: https://www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2340 …
*Two thirds* of registered voters think "Public officials don't care much what people like me think". Huge numbers.pic.twitter.com/wofbx5l1St
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