Today I am *not* talking about room temperature semiconductors and alien body parts (both big if true), there are enough people talking about news, noise and new shiny things.
Instead I'm back to yet another human signal, pointing to a centre that cannot hold.
Or, to be more specific, how #generationz girls are actively seeking "Lazy Girl Jobs", in other words, this generation is *looking for* meaningless bullshit jobs, even as AI is taking these sorts of cost-centre jobs as fast as they are being created (yes, AI is the ultimate bullshit job creator and destroyer, as I remarked to a friend last week, as long the money tree is making money, bullshit jobs proliferate as the money pools in places its not needed and dries up where both it and real jobs are needed).
This just adds to "minimum effort Monday" and "lying down flat" movements - this generation has cynically seen that if they can't beat the bullshit economy, they may as well cash in on it.
But being part of the (real) problem is not going to solve it.
It makes me question the wisdom of double income households as the minimum ticket to the middle class (see sub signal of our return to “Jane Austin marriage markets, where we need to couple up to afford the rent, being a single lady is just too damn expensive), whether some women are better off as happy stay at home girlfriends (even if feminism tells them that's very naughty and unambitious), if ambition is one-size-fits all, or if there are other non-financial paths to meaning and fulfilment...
Anyway, companies who would like to hire actually happy and ambitious talent, rather than "lazy girls" better take note. The "vibe", as they say has shifted. Ambition and loyalty to the firm is out. Minimum effort for minimum acceptable return and loyalty to self is in. The girl boss is dead, long live the self (en?)titled stay at home lazy girlfriend.
They see though the corporate game - that employees are disposable - and refuse to play it or pay for it with the best years of their lives.
What are your thoughts?
How can you reasonably explain to your next generation workforce why they should put in more than minimum effort?
When ambition is seen as stupid and for pawns rather than the savvy, what happens to your recruitment strategy?
Read more:
Lazy girls are onto the corporate grift and off the treadmill : https://fortune.com/2023/07/23/what-is-a-lazy-girl-job-gen-z-tiktok/
Easy energy (maybe) : https://theconversation.com/room-temperature-superconductors-could-revolutionize-electronics-an-electrical-engineer-explains-the-materials-potential-201849
Stay at home, girl, let the boys work : https://theconcordian.com/2023/02/whats-wrong-with-tiktoks-stay-at-home-girlfriend
Jane Austin marriage markets : https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jul/22/is-housing-crisis-killing-romance-modern-dating-jane-austen
See you in Cape Town to talk about this all : https://fluxtrends.com/our-future-of-us-salon-is-coming-to-cape-town/
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