the elderly are turned into dry biscuits
dry biscuit makers
O_O
And since they will be brought in to fill jobs that Finns can't or won't do, it will mean that they hold skills that Finns don't have or don't want to use
I remember people whining about that here, but the same people doing the whining wouldn't go and do the jobs that were getting "stolen".
Though in fairness from the sounds of things from some people exiting industries that are now short (nursing jumping to mind most immediately) situation sounds pretty untenable for the most part.
Tiktok seems fine as a career choice (or at least a thing to do for a while as careers shift with the sands of time these days). It's like concept art and animating though, massively oversaturated because "everyone" wants to do it, so you really have to be extremely exceptional to "stand out" and get the job/attention/reach/whatever. Anyone that heads down that thinking it's "workless wealth" have their eyes opened pretty damn fast and if they really want it they'll work at it, if they don't then they'll head out to try something else (with or without the epic screaming tantrums about how people are too stupid to recognise their brilliance and the algorithms are against them for no reason etc XD).
Amusingly I had a really long conversation with my boys yesterday (mostly with 18yo through 14yo was kicking around listening and occasionally contributing) about stuff like this and 18yo is at that young gung ho world is my oyster stage where he does recognise that some things (like running businesses etc) and wealth building is a lot of hard work, but doesn't fully grok just how hard that work can be, for him right now with his limited experience everything seems easy because it's actually very simple on paper/in one's head. He just looks puzzled or thinks I must be grossly exaggerating things when I explain to him that what's involved is harder/takes longer than what he thinks.
Like both were horrified that I gave up a business that was becoming successful "just" because I really, really wasn't enjoying it anymore and the time the expansion would take up was more than I was willing to spend on it, and would also take time away from things I didn't want it to take time away from, because none of them know how long things actually take XD
I think there is also the factor of 18yo's brain isn't glitchy like mine so there are some things that he's not understanding, like how much overhead it actually takes for me to do enough of the basic organisation work (schedules, planning etc) to make everything run smoother.
But, when enough people don't want to do the work, or can't - well, the economy collapses. As does it when enough people are doing the wrong work.
A lot of the work we're doing now was the "wrong work" for previous economies.
That was another thing 18yo and I were talking about, I'm not sure where he pulled his numbers from but he reckons he read somewhere that 70% of people surveyed for this whatever he was looking at indicated they would be happier staying home keeping house, so they should just do that, and that way the leftover people that wanted to work would then become more "valuable" and more "in demand" and thus earn more, and the idea of having to shift the entire ass economy as well as people's brains to account/allow for that didn't occur to him.
I am glad you picked up on it!!
It is. We want affordable healthcare, but we are happy to pay sports stars a hundred million a year to hit a ball. There is a misalignment of demand.
And yeah, I know it isn't easy on TikTok, but my point is that if everyone was moving into those kinds of professions, even though there might be money in it, there isn't food and shelter in it. The skills needed to farm, build, create, make etc are still needed, but there is no one to do it. Here, there are companies pulling welders out of retirement and paying them well because there are no young people able.
Plans never go to plan. The accuracy degrades the younger the planner. :)
Some people think they are able to work through, as long as they make enough money. It is rarely the case, as while people want the money, they want it for the lifestyle it buys and those kinds of people, are affected by the lifestyle of work too. Very few just want the money.
Do you remember the push for girls to get into STEM in Australia? They outperformed the boys all the way. When they made their selections for university, not much changed, they still did nursing and teaching etc, like they had always chosen. There is the same thing with what people want to do. I know lots and lots of professional women, most would prefer to stay at home with their kids, but they actually feel that they can't, as it is like letting the team down. There is social pressure. Many men want to stay home too, but there is social pressure to be the bread winner there also.
Meanwhile eldest (after dabbling with the usual "get rich quick" schemes that people like to sell courses about) is excitedly getting into trades because there is always money in trades AND it's always useful XD
Middle child wants to do childcare (I don't remember the STEM push but there's the stereotype of the thought after that XD) and youngest currently wants to be a bartender.
And if it's any consolation there is a large number of people into backyard homesteading (there's at least one community here!) and I don't think decentralising food production is the worst idea.
LoL! As much as I'm struggling to think of exceptions there, so very generally true XD
We were talking about that too XD
What freaking team, I thought one of the initial purposes of the exercise was the ability to make that choice sans judgement.