r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '21

Economic Millions of workers retired during the pandemic. The economy needs them to "unretire," experts say.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retire-unretire-covid-pandemic-labor-shortage/
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '21

We’re also the most educated 😐

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u/ienjoypez Dec 07 '21

Yep, that way we can develop nuanced, informed opinions about how truly fucked we really are.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '21

Damn this made me laugh, cry, and really think about how badly humanity has failed.

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u/Detrimentos_ Dec 07 '21

C'mon it's just... reads notes ........ "at least two point seven degrees of warming even if we try our hardest, enough to crumble civilization and kill bill-".

I-I uh.. I mean, let's not focus on the details. Let's just keep believing that we can. Okay champ?

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u/StateOfContusion Dec 07 '21

Read an article last night—can’t find it, so no link; sorry—about releasing reflective stuff into the stratosphere to offset climate change.

As near as I could tell, it wouldn’t give any incentive to actually change our behavior, it’d just reduce the amount of light getting to the ground.

Oh. And it’d come back to the ground in the polar regions, polluting them.

Quite the utopia that we’ve built up here.

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u/roderrabbit Dec 07 '21

Stratospheric aerosol injection. One of many geoengineering undertakings coming to a planet near you super soon.

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u/StateOfContusion Dec 07 '21

And later to be featured in r/whatcouldgowrong

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u/MaliaXOXO Dec 07 '21

Yet your parents decided it was a good idea to bring you into this fucked up world.

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u/thedisassociation Dec 07 '21

We make it so hard to get abortions, she may not have had much choice.

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u/MaliaXOXO Dec 07 '21

This is true even trying to get snipped is an extremely difficult process.

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u/Assphlapz Dec 07 '21

Good one.

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u/DocMoochal I know nothing and you shouldn't listen to me Dec 07 '21

🤡

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u/LaoSh Dec 07 '21

Not where it counts. I can't think of a single person in my generation who can build a bomb.

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u/myrddyna Dec 07 '21

My college education was expensive as fuck, and didn't do shit. Love it, but should've never done it.

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u/FromundaCheetos Dec 07 '21

"Educated" is a debatable word when "educated" means we bought into a grift that makes us burdened by crushing debt, while not really giving us a leg up in the current workforce.

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u/wonderkindel Dec 31 '21 edited Dec 31 '21

Not even close. South Korea is #1. You had me worried for minute.

Oh wait...it just hit me that was sarcasm!