32-Millennial here. Graduated high school during 2008 Great Recession, saw companies lay folks off who were making good $ and replace with cheaper labor- slashing salaries across the board and keeping us locked in a cycle of income lower than cost of living.
Then we saw the pandemic psuedo-recession lay folks off again, those people just started getting jobs once more like 6 months-1 year ago, and bam! We are in for an even bigger recession now that is supposedly going to be worse. Major layoffs on the horizon.
I mean, nothing is a bigger buzzkill to motivation for work than back and forth hiring/firing and having to start over again every few years (which will probably be the way moving forward, major recessions every 3-4 years as the FED and Govt pump up inflation, bring it down, then pump it up, then bring it down).
How can we keep moving forward the same way after knowing all this?