This article from a Wall Street magazine, hand wrings about how the Boomers finally leaving the workplace en masse is going to cause a labor shortage and a windfall for Gen Z.
This mass exodus from the workforce was supposed to happen 30 fucking years ago. But because of Boomers' staggering avarice and selfishness Boomers clung onto their jobs, homes and positions of authority as long as they absolutely could and now that even the very youngest of them are in their 60's, death, illness and just becoming outdated and unable to adapt to productivity increases with tools like AI, are forcing them out of the market.
The incel phenomenon is a purely economic issue. Now with 3rd wave feminism allowing women to earn a sustainable wage independently, men go from being a necessity to survive to a huge liability if they're not bringing something beyond a meager wage to the table.
And many men simply don't have anything to offer a partner than a wage. They're not handsome, refined, monied, and increasing not white (which in a de facto apartheid society does make a difference).
The labor glut created by the boomers that the boomers were themselves spared the effects of, created a huge underclass of young men that had to complete with entrenched boomers that built their political power during the greatest economic expansion in modern history.
Then the Boomers, with nothing else to do, stayed in the labor market 30 years longer than they were expected, creating a huge back pressure of labor demand that will be uncorked all at once in the next few years.
Incels are the complete product of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism that was built on the seemingly endless labor supply provided by the baby boomer population. Neoliberals are the brats of the post WWII explosion of in the rate of profit that the utter destruction of European capital in WWII caused. And these neoliberals thought that good times would last forever and did zero contingency planning.
Many Gen X'ers, Millennials, and Gen Z'ers comment on how 'good' the Boomers had it. Once this labor shortage starts in earnest, it will make those good times look quaint in comparison.
Younger generations are far and away more educated than Boomers are. Boomers actually had issues graduating high school, and the ones that did have something closer to a middle school level of education. That's why Boomer leaders like Trump, talk like a 12 year old.
In contrast Millennial and Gen Z have some o
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