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Serious concerns ought to be raised about the wellbeing of the 4th estate.
#2
People don't go and seek out live music like they did 20 years ago. Small live music bars with built in crowds of regulars who would always show up to check out the band of the week used to be common place, today they are very very rare.
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The original thread currently has 15K upvotes and around 13K various comments, leading a person who doesn’t know much about the modern world to conclude that the world economy is in a state of severe crisis. Tthe list includes literally all industries—from machinery and agriculture to creative professions, which have never previously faced such issues.
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In fact, the advent of artificial intelligence has done for representatives of creative industries what the beginning of the industrial revolution did for artisans about 200 years ago. Back then, in the middle of the 19th century, a movement of Luddites emerged, who, for ideological reasons, deliberately smashed various machines. Today, fortunately, it hasn’t come to that...yet?
But everything will most likely end up about the same as it was then—two centuries ago. New revolutionary technologies will deprive some of the employed of their jobs, but they will also create many more jobs. And well, those whose work involves the use of these new technologies will become even more productive than before.
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2 year degree, 8k worth of tools to get started in mine. The old heads wonder why the new guys quit when they get paid flat rate and you’re hiding their tools to f*ck with them at work.
This next generation wants to be paid a liveable wage, not be abused, and to come to work to work. I’m all for them. Shops charge 200 a flat rate hour for jobs and pay these guys 15-30. It’s abysmal. They can afford to pay people what they are worth. Every business can.
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I work for a plant that makes parts for the big 3 and we've been barely working 4 days a week, where pre-pandemic we were working 6/7 days.
"The global economy experiences regular wave fluctuations - in the short, medium and long term. This has always been the case, and the decline has always been replaced by an upswing," says Olga Kopylova, Ph.D., an associate professor of economics at Odessa National Maritime University, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. "However, recent years have indeed been difficult. Very difficult, to be honest."
"First the COVID-19 pandemic, and when the business world began to expect a seemingly inevitable rise in economic activity, a wave of military conflicts began in different regions of the world, which hit economic ties even harder. It is not surprising that along with the accumulated problems, this threatens the risk of a serious worldwide crisis."
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London, which is a pilliar for Electronic Music lost 37% of its Clubs in the past 4 years.
Edit: Lots of y’all are just getting older and don’t want to admit it.
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Yes, people will always drink, but the worse the economy gets, the more people will trade down to the cheap stuff.
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"It just so happened that literally one after another, several ‘black swans’ - that is, unpredictable events of a negative nature, using the terminology of the famous economist and publicist Nassim Taleb - overlapped. However, the global economy has a fairly large margin of safety to cope with this. But still, for some time, turbulence will indeed continue to affect our lives," Olga Kopylova concludes.
Well, when viewed in historical context, the current problems are far from the worst the economy has ever faced. Especially if you compare it all, for example, with the times of the Great Depression. On the other hand, a historical analogy is little consolation for someone who has lost their job and cannot find a new one...
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For the first time in my life, I've been submitting resumes every single day for the last four months and have not had one interview.
It's tough out there right now, fingers crossed my luck takes a turn!
#14
I try to stay off the freeways whenever possible.
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Be that as it may, life today is not easy, and you and I are definitely living in an era of change, and this—as another wise man of antiquity once said—you wouldn’t even wish on your worst enemy. On the other hand, forewarned is forearmed, so please read these stories from netizens and maybe if you are more aware of the troubles that await people in different industries, you’ll be better equipped to cope with the approaching adversity.
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If all goes well, I'll be making and repairing violins professionally after I graduate in spring, which is pretty cool. I picked a bad time to get into the field though, at least there's a high demand for it.
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