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Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

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191 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.337s | source
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TuringNYC ◴[02 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45104348[source]▶
I live in a community full of high-achieving GenZ who did 4-7 AP courses, studied their butts off for the SAT, got into good universities....only to not find any jobs when they graduate with STEM degrees. A dozen neighbors' kids have been asking me for zero-salary jobs just to get experience.
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Consultant32452 ◴[02 Sep 25 15:37 UTC] No.45104503[source]▶
We have flooded the STEM market with foreign workers. Sometimes we don't even give the foreign workers real jobs, we pretend they are "grad students" and pay them a pittance doing high level science at the universities. I generally like all the foreign folks I've worked with, but they are definitely suppressing the wages of natives to an insane degree.
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MangoToupe ◴[02 Sep 25 15:42 UTC] No.45104577[source]▶
You could just as easily argue that we simply aren't creating enough jobs to make use of the labor force, which traditionally has been a very dangerous place for an empire—especially the core—to be in.
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1. coliveira ◴[02 Sep 25 15:55 UTC] No.45104769[source]▶
The US is quickly becoming something else than the core of the global economy. The signs have been there already: advanced chips are done somewhere else, manufacturing in general is done in other places as well. What we see now is the biggest companies hiring in other countries like India and employing AI instead of workers. The US population is becoming less and less relevant.