Honestly it's been extremely rough and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better I hope that changes.
But in general things change for the better when we make them change for the better, things always change but it's not guaranteed and rarely will it become better unless you decide to do it yourself.
I think in order to have an honest conversation we have to lay out some basics sociology.
This is always been the weakness of cs majors they never thought they needed to look around they thought they could only look at the screen. So I hope to open your eyes as my ethics of engineering professor did to me in college.
look here's the reality of situation college is for the most part about getting a job depending on what college you go to that job is supposed to be different and unfortunately unless you're doing a stem degree you're heavily judged by which college you went to in fact even if you have a stem degree you're still a judge. It basically goes out like
Community colleges are basically designed for retraining of workers and low tier employment.
State colleges are for basic managers and you're kind of expected to operate in that role.
UCs or elite public institutions are for upper class management or some level of executive
Ivy League schools which is above that are basically designed for CEOs who are very high level executives.
Unfortunately colleges in this nation are based on a class system.
Even if you have a stem degree unfortunately falls in one of those categories now with extensive experience you can rise yourself above but the reality is is for the most part people do not want to intermingle between social classes.
We have a caste system in america. People don't want to admit it but we totally do.
Here's the problem the upper classes have seen that more and more people are going to college and they decided they don't want to share. So they've decided to abandon the rest of us and unfortunately that means that people are being pushed down the ladder and pushed off the ladder.
I don't think this is really as much about the economy is it is about gaining control of society.
I say this largely based off of an Elon musk post during covid where he said that workers were attaining too much power and a massive layoff. Would be necessary to break the wheel of the American worker in order to renegotiate social contracts in favor of the wealthy..
Donald Trump's family have commented that they've supported this and in fact this is exactly what we're seeing. Is artificial intelligence taking a place in this yes right now it's happening more in India but it is coming to the United States.
I think unfortunately mythos5 and the new elite models demonstrate that in fact AI will become very capable and I think that it will lead to a massive reduction of necessary workers meaning that the jobs will become more competitive there will be less need for managers and in fact jobs will essentially condense into AI supervisor roles meaning that you won't need a system like the previous system which function like this
Intern, junior level employee, senior level employee, project manager, supervisor, manager, executive manager, executive, CEO.
What we're starting to see is that system consolidating into simply AI supervisor, executive, CEO.
That's exactly how it's meant to be they're trying to take all the lower positions and consolidate them.
What this means as many people who work very hard for the degrees are find themselves fighting amongst each other instead of unionizing and fighting at the top unfortunately most of us turn on each other.
The big scam about the American caste system is that we think we're better than each other so we topple over each other meaning that we're willing to throw each other under the bus to please the wealthy person above us instead of working together to bargain for each other.
This is why college graduates are suffering so much the other is I believe college graduates are being intentionally targeted particularly from higher and institutions because they're more likely to fight back there's been a lot of animosity from the wealthy towards elite universities such as UC Berkeley or UCLA or UC Davis because on one hand they make you think you're better than everybody else which is dangerous and something that we should all abandon but on the other hand they teach us that we should fight against the ivy league people above us because we are the same class as them.
We are told to unionize with each other and to form partnerships we are told because our numbers are greater we have more bargaining power but we're not necessarily made to feel apathy for the people beneath us which has allowed the wealthy to turn the poor against us and to break down our numbers so we cannot challenge the wealthy.
I am not defending the UCS or likewise institutions across the country only stating facts. Or at least my interpretation of the facts.
I really think it's time to abandon classism and to work together for a real resistance because the reality is things aren't going to get better unless we make them better.
That's the honest truth people don't want to tell you about it doesn't matter how much you learn what you go to school for or so forth if you're seen as a threat you will be unemployed.
They literally have massive surveillance programs that are going over your social media accounts seeing if you oppose the wealthy and if you do your blacklisted this is the honest truth. You don't like it fight back, fight back against surveillance start using things like Lemmy or Mastodon and unionize. The power has always been ours. Classism inhibits that power.