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It wasn't always so.

The ignorant socialists among us took over the bureacracies, pushing a cult of qualification, and made it seem like subscribing would promote prosperity through cheap debt. They made it a real thing.

Rather than simply looking for baseline requirements to fulfill a role, positions always want a ballerina with contradictory requirements they themselves can't determine is most important.

I remember a position asking for 15 years experience in a language, that only existed for 10, and they refused to hire the creator of that programming language.

They also have loans fueling them with near free money so they can wait and suppress wages to a point of debt-slavery.

Its been quite a trip seeing all the things my grandparents (silent generation) were adamant and warned about coming to fruition within my lifetime.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a violent civil war starts in the next few years given the social contract has largely been broken by the generation currently in power, and they burnt all the bridges in doing so. There's going to be one hell of a massive correction in our lifetimes. For good or ill its coming.



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