It's bad for me as an elder millennial seeing the promised opportunities of my youth fading into inflation, debt, and red tape. It has to be far worse for Zoomers entering the workforce in the past few years. Then there is a definite friction dealing with the stereotypical Karens. This scourge of trying to serve people who refuse to be satisfied with anything while you're getting shit pay with no prospect is infuriating and degrading.
That said, there is also a lot of terrible advice from people who say our solution is to unionize and demand better pay as if we can squeeze blood from a stone when no one except the most politically-connected have that kind of fiscal surplus in the first place. There is a Utopian idea that we can just legislate wealth into existence through price controls and tax reform. Everyone is "owed" a "living wage"based on purely arbitrary standards, and no one should need to produce value for others to receive value back.
It's easy to say, "If you want more, offer more," but in the current world of leveraged debt, skyrocketing costs for basic housing, and an education system that has completely failed the past several generations, I can also understand the societal ennui. I wish there were an easy answer like, "just get a better job," but the opportunities are often simply not there in the first place. There is real burnout when you try to get traction only to see costs rising faster than pay.
Many in the US are working one or more part-time jobs because high-minded bureaucratic dictates screwed with the costs of hiring for employers. An employer needs to provide an extra benefits package mandated by government to those who work more than X hours, so they resort to hiring more people at part-time hours. The employer would prefer the logistics of fewer employee with more full-time jobs. The employees would prefer the stability of full-time jobs. The economic reality of regulatory intervention means part-time jobs abound, and the result is shitty jobs with dissatisfied, stressed-out employees.
I am at the tailend of genX - it isn't better.
I think this is where "make a better job" comes into play. Just have a look at what is happening in blockchain and crypto - it should be easy for "digital natives" that are confident "content creators" to build into, right?
Well, if I can do it, anyone can.