Just Get A Job At A Galt's Gulch Starbucks And STFU

[babylonsister]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/get-job-at-galts-gulch-starbucks-and.html

Just Get A Job At A Galt's Gulch Starbucks And STFU

by digby


I just love it when young, well paid elites tell older middle class workers who have spent 30 years building a career that they should have planned better for finding themselves unemployable in their 50s. I especially love it when they tell them to go get a job at Starbucks if they have a hard time finding a new job --- so they don't get "depressed" and prove to their spouse that they aren't just being lazy fucks. That 10% unemployment rate is no impediment to gainful employment for 57 year-olds who have never served a fucking latte in their lives... they're handing em out to anyone who asks. (Personally, I think they should just move to Galt's Gulch and do necessary parasite jobs that serve our productive 1%, like garbage collector and dominatrix.)

My only solace is that they too will one day be in their 50s (if they're lucky) and I will be fervently hoping that this happens to them and they will be able to go through this character building experience for themselves. If they're lucky they won't have to listen to people who know absolutely nothing about what it's like to be in that position, the economic pressures, the psychological pain, the fear that they are going to lose everything they have as spoiled twits drawl on about how it's their own fault for failing to better prepare and now they just have to accept that they need to work for peanuts serving frappucinos to snotty yuppies. We'll see how "helpful" they find this advice.


http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/how-to-survive-a-layoff/63332/
How to Survive a Layoff

[ixion]

1. Wall St. games the playing field so Main St. loses, and then mocks them

for not playing better.

Such is the everyday insanity of the human condition, in my opinion.

[Ken Burch]

2. I'm with you and digby on this.

There's a huge element of generational payback in young people smugly belittling the older jobless for the mistakes anyone would make when they were suddenly thrust into a situation they hadn't been in for twenty or thirty years or more.

Where the hell do those kids get off? Are they THAT pissed off that the suddenly-jobless-at-55 don't all choose to blow their brains out? And are they THAT unaware that, given the way the economy's been restructured since 1980, it will almost certainly happen to THEM, too?

Utah Phillips was thinking about these members of the Junior Arrogance League when he sang these lines:

"(some) young people reaching for power and gold,
Got no respect for anything old.
For pennies they are bought,
And for promises sold,
someday THEY'LL all be used up".

[TBF]

3. Excellent post - recommended. nt