We don't have enough empathy for unemployed young people

Sep 23, 2026 · 8:05 PM UTC

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Job market shifting & the grad path that was promised to them is not really there anymore. Also, the unforgiving AI automated job applications where you rarely interact with a human.
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real 😭 I was supposed to have an interview today and they made me wait for more than an hour and still no one joined the meeting I was so nervous but now I am angry asf
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I empathise with them because I’ve been there before and I know how it feels like.
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And we shouldn’t. If you young and living in America you should have at least 2 jobs to start a business then get rich pretty easy
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Cause if they don’t have a job that means they’re not trying. Its definitely not the employers fault. ppl should stop whining and pull themselves up by their boot straps
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job market is horrific. i lived it myself, but sometimes people need to compromise
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the whole "just apply to more jobs" advice ignores that employers smell desperation and ghost you even harder. been there. that waiting room anxiety is its own special kind of hell.
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It do be tough a masters degree has become the new bachelors degree
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People getting denized left and right
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That applies for Older people too. Especially since Government will require some Seniors under 65 years old find employment continue quality for Social Security
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I mean, here is the thing you can literally do anything now. You want to analyze blood work, know why your knees click and create a rehab program, you want to create apps, you want to become a hacker, fix the washer and dishwasher, repair your own car, well you can do all those things now basically by yourself. It's just hard to translate those things into income and the system isn't really setup for people to quickly make startup businesses. There's liability, permits, licenses, politics, and other hoops. So we're kind of at a point where self learners can doing anything but aren't really allowed to. Cost of living creates massive penalties for non participation so to even do things like create startups is functionally discouraged in the current system.
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Arguing with older people at my work, because apparently this generation have it easy, got told my opinion wasn't valid because I have a job and I'm young 🤣🤷‍♂️
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Don't have sympathy for the ones that would rather do nothing but wait for a grad job than take a job on the level of McDonald's for the time being until they can land one.
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I lost my first job literally last year, after like a month and four days over some dumbass shit. Little did I know it was right when getting a job off-tops was becoming harder and harder. Fuck me. And it was my first one in...basically forever.
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It was a hellish time in my life
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fr, people act like it's easy to find a job rn
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We do there’s just not much we can do about it so we move on
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Unemployed people, period. If you're an unskilled worker over 40, good luck being hired for anything.
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Instead we just blame them and tell them they’re not good enough
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It won’t really help them much.
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I am sadly apart of the people who are unemployed iv’e been applying to job’s since March iv’e applied to 4 job’s iv’e had 2 interview’s but i haven’t been hired the crazy part is iv’e been applying to job’s i have 3 year’s of experience doing and my experience isn’t enough
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We dont have enough empathy for people in general tbh
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What about the old ones @user31_ivan
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yea I dont think people said that in the great depression
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We fighting with them for jobs...you can be empathetic but it don't make a difference
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We have our own problems.
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very weird how older people are so bitter about it
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Who’s “We”?
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Some do not have a choice. I know
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they'll be shipping them off to war in a couple of years.
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we don’t have enough empathy in general. politics is now about “how does it directly benefit me” as opposed to “rising tide lifts all boats”
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Our lives are fucking over while we sit here and watch foreigners drive around in new cars and start families we will never have. Then lea keeps an eye on us like we are the criminals. Just fucking die already
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Just focus on the billionaires lmao
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as it's capitalism RIGHT? 🤣
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Oha sizin ülkenizde de mi işsizlik var bshshsh
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