Both these articles I think really just deal with the root cause of the problem (similar to politics and adults) which is kids today are terrified as to what kind of job they will get if they don’t ace everything.
Bottom line is, as I’ve mentioned, there is an oversupply of labor and good/decent jobs are much harder to find. Yes, unemployment is lower now than 7-8 years ago, but a lot of the jobs people working in now aren’t as well paying or as good. There are so many articles detailing that. A no benefit part-time gig with Uber is not an old 90s job with full benefits.
I know of kids in high school who are at that breaking point and having mental and health issues because the classes are getting too hard and they aren’t able to deal with it.
Parents just want to get them help to fix the problem or find a Band-Aid from the teachers by giving them a pass, but at the end of the day, if you give one kid a pass, how is that fair to everyone else or the kid? It leads to more kids like this expecting that Band-Aid or pass because so and so got a “B”. A while back, so many people flunked engr classes that getting a B was probably top 25% for sure…
In my day (over 20 years ago), getting a few bad grads didn’t mean you couldn’t get work, but as college is now like a high school degree, you’re simply competing with all those other grads as well as probably an equal amount of foreign grads too. Not to mention the cost has gone up by 10x I think from when I went and you also need grad school. Lose the whole resort type of campus I feel…
On the money side, what I feel needs to be done isn’t a stock market crash to bring asset equality to everyone, but some safety net issues and people deciding if it’s ok again to pay more for stuff compared to outsourcing everything to get the lowest priced goods.
Every industry nowadays is a race to the bottom and outside of a few areas, nearly all businesses are being strained I think.
It’s not a surprise that if you can make a widget in the US for $20, but in Mexico, it will cost $1.50, companies will do it and people who used to make $20 are going to be screwed. In a global economy, this is a race to the bottom and once you are left behind (this is happening in China now), people will start killing themselves if they get too desperate and depressed.
Some things that should probably be done is eliminate the number 1 reason for bankruptcy, healthcare cost. Go single payer, decrease benefits for all (like low success operations), limit procedures if they won’t make a life last much longer, etc…I don’t know if that will fly in America, but keep all the basic needs and just cut out leading tech or very expensive stuff.
For the very rich, they can “pay” to get it done. Poor people will just die, but again, in these cases, the chance to survive is extremely low anyways. It’s sorta like rich people cut in line anyways for organ donors too.
A lot of healthcare places will probably be hurt, but I think the whole middle man that Blue Cross/Blue Shield is, is a scam anyways and those should just dissolve. Work directly with hospitals (very hard), but see how every other country does it and still have lower mortality rates than the US. Give more pay for prevention vs procedures and don’t rush to do stuff that we do now. Prevent frivolous lawsuits so Doctors won’t feel like they have to order 20 tests, etc…
Eliminate taxes completely under a certain income limit…I think Trump supports this, but his plan has more benefits for the rich actually so you need to also keep taxing social security, and the financial tax in the UK has been working pretty well I’ve read. Change long term stock gains to be much higher so you don’t have people like Buffett paying less than the simple middle class guy.
As someone who has made good money and very bad money, poor people don’t save because they really don’t have enough to save…It’s just not a mindset or problem when you are paycheck to paycheck.
Try to discourage young girls from having kids. Kids are a life changer and having kids young is very very bad. Encourage birth control (pill/patch whatever (since kids will always have sex…) No chance for kids will give these kids a higher chance for a better future.
Probably nothing is possible in our government and division and special interests, and we’ll just grind it worst and worst till it pops.
