We can't afford job security

There is no such thing as job security without taking away freedom from future generations. Understanding government budgets reveals why the illusion of secure white-collar jobs comes at a cost.

If you understand government budgets, you will stop believing in job security.

There is no such thing as job security -- especially not in a role without craftsmanship -- without taking away freedom from future generations.

Why? Because most people's idea of "job security" requires them to be a high paying white-collar bureaucrat in an office with a big corner desk.

Who wants to have a secure job that needs you to deal with dirt, danger, difficulties? If you can handle those 3Ds I guarantee your career is secure 100%. Incidentally, those are the jobs people look forward the most to be replaced.

Therefore, the reality is not that there is "no job security", rather it is "there is not enough non-3D secure jobs" in this world, because each one requires a government or bureaucracy to print or devalue existing currency to keep you and your desk.

When everyone thinks they are entitled to that illusion, what do you think is going to happen to future generations?

Some people worked hard to get a cushy, secure job as a C-level in some corporate, public office, conglomerate, consultancy, education institution.

An average person will think the price is decades of hard work climbing the career ladder and dealing with occasional office politics -- it is not the only price paid.

If the job is an administrative role where the "ascension" requires building a wall to keep off competitors (EG: adding regulations, raising licensing requirements to limit labor supply), paper pushing (office equivalent of digging a hole then filling a hole), it may be complicit in making some of the younger generations less free in doing productive work and less free with their social mobility.

> be average worker
> want job security, dream of cushy office job
> "must get that corner desk and nice pension"
> ignore that someone has to pay for my security
> government prints money, raises taxes to fund my salary
> future generations get debt and zero mobility
> "where did all the good jobs go?"
> real secure jobs = dirt, danger, difficulty
> nobody wants those, everyone wants to be the boss's boss
> watch as admin jobs multiply, regulations stack up, new grads need 3 diplomas to push paper
> TFW job security was just borrowing from my kids' freedom

If you ever felt "credential inflation" and lower conversion rates in job application rates, this is what's happening and you have the market that existed before you to thank.

If you are still young and starting out in your career, stop buying the idea or complaining about job security -- it was never there.

If it was, then the (money printing and deficit spending) ship has sailed and you need to start making something for yourself.

Look up your state's public spending, learn how to read financial statements of companies, and learn how money and value is created. You will quickly come to conclusion the only way wealth can be created is to do something that helps people and do it better (IE: getting better at your craft).

Most office jobs today are "state manufactured elites". IE: the state lends money for someone to get into college, get in debt, then offers them to be a slave for the state.

It is as ridiculous as minting your own crypto, selling "scholarships" to players by borrowing them your axoloties, and sending those axolotl to battle as a chore. 1

The difference is one does it with fictional currency. The other does it with printed or taxed money.

If you think its unsustainable, we are very close to the end of line.

If you want real job security, you must accept 3Ds, or be so good at your craft that no one beats you at your game.

I'm a fresh grad...
I sent out 200 applications and barely got interviews.
Everyone asks for 2 degrees and 15 years of experience.
Was it always this hard?
No, but the "easy" days were built on debt, government spending, and a lot of make-believe.
Credential inflation is the price you pay for the market that came before you.
But I worked so hard to get this degree!
Isnt that supposed to open doors?
Thats what you were sold. If job security ever existed, it sailed off on a deficit spending ship years ago.
What you’re feeling is a game that needs more and more tokens to get the same prize.
What would you do if you were starting out right now?
I’d stop obsessing about "job security."
Learn 2 read public budgets and company financials
see how money and value actually flow
build something that people want or need.
thats real job security
But all these office jobs say they’re prestigious!
My parents keep telling me to work for the government or a big corporation!
Most office jobs are "state-manufactured elites."
Student loan debt, fancy diploma, then straight into bureaucracy
you're just a well-dressed tax slave.
It's not that different from crypto games where you borrow an NFT pet and grind for a fraction of the winnings.
hahaha axie infinity
So whats actually secure?
3D jobs: dirt, danger, difficulty.
Or be so good at something useful that no one can outcompete you.
The rest is just passing the bill down to whoever comes next.

Footnotes

  1. If you are wondering, it's Axie Infinity.