And I’ve never understood this mentality. I don’t feel entitled to perpetual demand for the kind of labor my employer provides, and I’d feel completely rotten about encouraging such waste just so I can keep exactly the same job. Where do people come up with this worldview?
Go back a generation and the concept of life-long careers was much more common. I think it’s that social expectations for Boomers and earlier was that they would have a particular career for life, and many from those generations feel affronted at the thought of having to give up on their existing career. Effectively they feel they’ve suffered a breach of the social contract.
The ones in politics aren’t at the end of their careers, that means that legislatures as a body will be more likely to consider making people change jobs to be unthinkable than the average person.
You are right though, over the next decade or so, this hypothesis would predict that demand for job security will fall over the next 10-20 years as the Boomers retire.
Go back a generation and the concept of life-long careers was much more common. I think it’s that social expectations for Boomers and earlier was that they would have a particular career for life, and many from those generations feel affronted at the thought of having to give up on their existing career. Effectively they feel they’ve suffered a breach of the social contract.
But aren’t the Boomers at the end of their careers now? It seems it would have to be a problem with a later cohort for this to be a major issue now.
The ones in politics aren’t at the end of their careers, that means that legislatures as a body will be more likely to consider making people change jobs to be unthinkable than the average person.
You are right though, over the next decade or so, this hypothesis would predict that demand for job security will fall over the next 10-20 years as the Boomers retire.