I have ten grand kids. I worry about what employment will be like for them. If you had a chance to read the article I linked it describes how in my parent's generation a family could afford to buy a house and a car and take the modest vacation on one parent's earnings, most women did not work. By dad was simply a laborer skilled as a upholsterer, a craftsman who puts new fabric on old furniture.

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In my generation it took both partners working to accomplish the same thing.

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Now for my kids, it takes two professional salaries to ever consider buying a home. Rank and file workers need two jobs and a side hustle or two to make ends meet.

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I don't call this progress. We are moving backward. What's next selling your kids to the workplace. Well disgustingly enough in Ohio they passed a bill to lower the age and lengthen the hours that teens can work.

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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/02/child-labor-laws-weakened-us-industries-teens

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Business complain that they can find workers. The real problem is worker don't want to work for minimal wages that still force them to be on public assistance.

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Thanks again and sorry I came across as an arrogant shit.