Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by luckylion on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:27AM
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The previous two comments mentioned Europe, where "multiple fulltime jobs" is essentially unheard of.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by tauchunfall on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:52AM
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Not multiple fulltime jobs, but in Germany there are 3.5 million people with multiple jobs (350,000 with jobs subject to social insurance contributions "sozialversicherungspflichtig"; 250,000 with "mini-jobs"). More than 50% in a poll give financial issues as the critical factor why they have multiple jobs.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by k1t on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:54AM
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I think multiple "fulltime jobs" is extremely rare.
Usually when people say they are working 2-3 jobs I believe they mean they get a couple of shifts a week from a couple of different employers.
E.g. 16 hours a week at a coffee shop, 12 hours a week at a restaurant and 2 nights a week as a cleaner.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by luckylion on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:10PM
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That would sum up to one full-time job, more or less?
I understood the comment to be angry about some large injustice, I'm not sure whether they were meaning to essentially say "some people have to work for a living, it's outrageous". With (Western) Europe's extremely strong social systems, the number of people who are forced to work multiple jobs because they wouldn't be able to eat otherwise is minuscule, I believe.
While this may exaggerate the case, it will continue to largely be true so long as we relegate huge portions of our population to 2-3 jobs while the VC system sustained in part by Ycombinator rewards capital formation to a degree that is damaging to society.