I just watched this. It's a boomer giving his thoughts on the current state of the job market. And why "people don't want to work". I think he's probably right about a good bit of this.
The thing I thought about during this, was that it's not just corporations that did this. More specifically is publicly traded companies, and the stock market in a sense that pretty much sealed in stone that this would happen.
To explain what I mean. When a company goes public, they have one responsibility. That is to increase profits for their share holders. They are legally obliged to do so. That means, even if someone at the company doesn't want to do something because, for instance it will he bad for the country they grew up in as a whole. If not doing that thing will hurt business, their hand can still be forced to do so. Now, I'm not saying it's a super common thing for these people to have moral hangups about their decisions. It's just an example.
So companies are incentivized to go public if they can, because that will allow the owners to rake in a bunch of money. Then those companies once public, are incentivized to do anything they can legally (or sometimes illegally even) to increase profits. It's a recipe to ruin a country as I see it. Then add on useless regulations pushed through by companies lobbying, and other governemnt bullshit like bailouts for companies that should have failed, and it makes things even worse.
To get back to this thread. I see all these things as feeding into eachother. If somone is going to learn a skill they need to be incentivized to do so. But if all the companies that would incentivize peole to learn, instead want to get Indian slaves to pay nothing. Instead of taking on, and training the next generations of american workers. Its just making things worse.
You could say it starts in the home like this guy mentioned. And yeah, I think their is some truth their. But then look at how their parents got there. And so on.
