One thing I have noticed is how prevalent the hustle culture has become among Millennials. LinkedIn is a hotbed of narcissism, and Twitter has a ton of self-proclaimed business superstars who have made money by having companies entirely dependent on using foreign labor and providing shitty service for customers. It's quite appalling how often you hear fellow Millennials go on and on boasting about their own "successes" or try to sell themselves without an ounce of honesty.
The hustle of creating "passive income" means that we are going to see a lot of sociopaths becoming landlords and doing the bare-minimum for those who rent from them, and the quality of services will continue to decline across all companies as there is no value in providing a good service, merely making money. The decline of quality we have seen from the boomer generation onward (yes, that includes you, Generation X, you aren't exempt from being self-destructive narcissists like your parents and your children) is going to ramp up significantly.
Some people will say, "blame the system, not the person," but for god's sake, eventually someone has to stand up and refuse to operate as basically a scam artist. For as many supposed "leftists" there are among Millennials, they sure have no qualms about taking the worst aspects of human greed and using that as their core business model.
Am I over-exaggerating here?
The solution isn't to browbeat them, it's to put them out of business.
That would be possible of companies weren't being protected by inflation and regulation.
Stress business enough, and you know what they do? Fire those 2 negative contributors no matter who's friend they are. That's why deflation and contraction are important.
Honestly, I've come to the conclusion that what you do matters less than who you work with.
Actually look for businesses and people that seem to have high-integrity and would be a good people to work with. The skills you learn along the way are w/e. And yeah, smaller can be mostly better. My "trust" argument works both ways. Interview them as much as they interview you.
You could always take a potential pay cut and go more local, but you'll also need to take more leadership, training, and organizational roles to help them build up to where they need to be.
So, for example. Let's say I'm going to quit my job as someone who has a supervisor role for an IT Help Desk. My primary concern is not pay, it's going to be the integrity of the people. I might see who has some of the best reviewed service desks. Look through the company on glass door and see if anyone mentions whether IT was good or bad. If I get a response back from their HR, I'm going to want to press them on those credentials more than anything else. If I'm in the interview, I'm going to ask them how would they handle examples of employees that need training, or how they would try to correct or assist with an employee's deficiency. How would they structure opportunities for people to both grow their careers and develop themselves personally. I'd want them to tell me a story of what they think leadership looks like and how it's important.
The only thing these shithole Leftist oligarchs have anything going for them at all, is the giant pile of money they steal from innocent people who don't know how hard they are getting raped. Smaller companies with a better reputation for quality and professionalism is where you should focus on working and developing a career.