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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by icelancer on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:12PM (#10382763)
I wouldn't say we have it "harder," because I don't believe that at all. The opportunities globalism and the Internet provide us are almost infinite. But the long-term view doesn't look too damn good from an employment perspective. There is a real mismatch of skill development and what is actually available on the market; and the labor demand is not nearly as stable as it used to be (career opportunities are changing every 5-10 years rather than 20-40). There is a lot more variance and randomness going forward by any reasonable projection, and while that doesn't actually change the underlying resource allocation, people don't do well with unpredictability.
Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by XorNot on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:48PM (#10383000)
I think more accurately its that, as the recent article on telematics shows - that the stable availability of work itself is being slowly eroded.

We can continue down that track for a while before you'll get a sufficient population of disaffection for something drastic to "suddenly" become a movement.

Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by happyscrappy on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:43PM (#10382968)
> people don't do well with unpredictability

Neither do long term views, things are moving so fast that long term views are pretty meaningless.