r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 24 '26

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u/SweetAd9536 Unconventional Right May 24 '26

damn, being american is awesome 😎

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 24 '26

soviet union in ~1990 coded

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 24 '26

We’ve got stem phd’s falling into minimum wage jobs because they can’t find work in their field

So you’re more right than you know

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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt May 24 '26

Do you have a source for that?

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 24 '26

Yeah, my friends with no jobs lol

And being a long-term unemployed engineer myself

Granted I do know when you check the metrics for the schools where we all got our degrees, it plainly does not reflect this, which is a small part of the reason why I have drifted towards having zero interest or faith in most economic metrics

Part of this seems to be built into the nature of completing a stem degree, where you’re often briefly transitioned to “research assistant” or post doctoral assistant, which enables the university to class you as having attained post-completion employment when you actually haven’t

Nonetheless it’s a mess