Came across this on my X feed:
archive: https://archive.is/jcckz
Gen Z is increasingly slamming their degrees as useless, and new research indicates there may be some truth when it comes to the job hunt. In fact, the unemployment rate of males aged 22 to 27 is roughly the same, whether or not they hold a degree. It comes as employers drop degree requirements and young men ditch corporate jobs for skilled trades. Gen Z is struggling to break into the entry-level job market—but young male college graduates may be hurting the most.
Someone mentioned some kind of "Boomer stare of confusion" a while back which will be exactly how they look during this.
'Boomer slackjaw', by u/MassivePecorino
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19BZz0WQk4/x/c/4eU477Sa5ND
Severian from founding questions has a theory that something has changed in terms of biology for American whites. The boomers are the first generation of whites who have aged very poorly, as all previous generations were still skinny into their old age. Boomers of the first generation of whites that do not look like their predecessors. Sev has a few theories on this. One of the theories I've heard elsewhere is boomers are the first generation of r select whites, is all previous generations of American whites were k in terms of breeding. That would explain their chunkiness, their short term thinking and lack of cognitive ability.
Sev has entire posts on how modern whites don't look like whites from a century ago. Not in terms of fashion but in terms of appearance of biology. He even dug up a bunch of photos and videos of young girls in the 1980s and pointed out that the average white girl nowadays does not look anything like the girls from even just a couple decades ago. It is really disconcerting. Uncanny valley affect.
This idea has bugged me for quite some time. Whenever I go to a museum I notice I look like the white guys from a century ago or even just a couple decades ago. But I don't look like modern men.
That's not how r vs K work. r vs K selection mostly comes down to number of offspring and time invested raising them to suitable self sufficiency. K has fewer offspring and puts in more time per offspring, which is in no small part due to our own biology where our nascent stage is helpless. Meanwhile r simply plays the numbers game and throws as many offspring as possible out into the world and hopes enough of them last long enough to reproduce. Family sizes have been going down and down over the last century and a bit where if anything it would be trending away from r and towards K. We don't need a dozen children now because we expect half of them to die before hitting double digits age wise.
Regardless of that humans have always been K selection because that's just how our biology works.
Myep. "Why is the hiring market in such bad shape? Ms. Smithers, have we had any minority applicants for the C level job?"