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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: 0s | 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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tekla ◴[02 Sep 25 15:31 UTC] No.45104391[source]▶
That seems normal. My friends and I did the exact same thing w. top grades and top schools 2 decades ago, turns out life is not a easy ride.
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sfpotter ◴[02 Sep 25 15:38 UTC] No.45104507[source]▶
On the flip side, back in the 70's Boeing used to do things like hire up people with no immediate experience, teach them C for three months, and then hire them into roles as programmers. I'm not sure you can decide what's "normal" based on what was happening two decades ago. Two decades ago, we were smack between two big economic crashes. And all this depends so, so much on geographic locale.
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1. victor106 ◴[02 Sep 25 15:57 UTC] No.45104803[source]▶
Companies found a better and cheaper way to short circuit this, just hire H1B’s and slog them till they get their green cards(which is forever).

That’s one of the biggest shortcomings of H1B program. (Even though I do support H1B’s and I do think they are good for country long term)