lowering expectations
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- kaonashi0
Answer me this: What was Mr. Villanueva's job? How did he earn that $50k?
That article makes it seem like all these white-collar workers are having to take embarrassing minimum wage jobs. The article even opens by claiming that the Tilt-A-Whirl operator this summer might be an accountant.
Fact time: The article doesn't cite a single credible instance of this happening. Mr. Villanueva is the sole evidence of someone taking a dramatic paycut. The catch is, we don't even know what he was doing to earn that $50,000. He could have just been hired because his Uncle is the CEO. Who fucking knows. The fact that the article ommits what his JOB actually was is troubling.
The only other actual case the article presents is a college Sophmore applying for a job at a hotel and...GASP! not hearing back from them! The article cranks up the hyperbole by claiming this 20 year old might have to return to Russia to find a job! And after all that work applying to a single hotel!
The article hearsay and statistical gloom-dooming. Not worthy of a thread post.