The US Workforce – The Business of Life (Episode 1)
Compared with the rest of the world, Americans work notoriously hard. But as income inequality increases, the growing millennial workforce is redefining what they want out of a job. To unpack the issue, we’ve enlisted Planet Money’s Adam Davidson, journalist Megan McArdle, and Jamelle Bouie of Slate.
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April 22, 2015 @ 11:29 am
I would like it to be more international instead of being focused on
America.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:35 am
Karōshi (過労死), which can be translated literally as “death from overwork”
in Japanese, is occupational sudden death. You work hard? We work Asian
Hard. We literally die from work. You want to compare sadness, we are the
saddest of them all. We are not proud of it. Something is very wrong.
And we are trapped in it. Now, America is joining us. Hopefully the same
fate won’t befall on America. Because we look forward to the day we can
have a healthy balanced work life like America in the past.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:37 am
I like the points made by Adam Davidson. I hope to see more from him.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:37 am
This is just babble, the whole structure is a joke. Life is short…don’t
give it away to a corporation or school debt.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:41 am
If you get a BA in Art, History, English, etc…and then complain that you
dont get a Job in an age where Tech is king. I don’t have much sympathy for
you. Doing what you love is important,but only if you can do it for the
rest of your life reliably. You need skills to be successful not
necessarily knowledge. If ur unskilled dont expect to have a long term job
you can live on for the rest of their life.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:43 am
If you’re going to talk about economic issues, please bring on an
Economist… not a bunch of reporters.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:44 am
jeeez that was depressing…informative, but really depressing…
April 22, 2015 @ 11:52 am
Notoriously stupid “journalist,” Michael “Chomsky doesn’t know anything”
Moynihan, serves as moderator for a Business News program, brought to you
by Bank of America – an institution which totally wasn’t just fined
billions of dollars by the DOJ for knowingly participating in highly
fraudulent, illegal, and risky transactions that nearly destroyed the
global economy. In related news, Vice co-founder Shane Smith – despite
having a net worth of $400 million and painting himself as a
counter-culture liberal executive – still pays his employees in wages
bordering on the poverty line.
April 22, 2015 @ 11:57 am
It really depends on what BA you have, because if you have a BA in Art
History you can’t expect to get a job at an Deloitte
April 22, 2015 @ 12:02 pm
Wow look at that all those negative comments on the trailer and a bunch of
the comments here are like “interesting show, do more”. Goes to show not to
judge until youve watched.
April 22, 2015 @ 12:06 pm
Ironic that we’re receiving “better money habits” from bank of america
after we had to bail them out to the tune of 20+ billion dollars back in
2008.
April 22, 2015 @ 12:10 pm
really good to short, kind of scatter shot answers with no dissension among
guests.
April 22, 2015 @ 12:15 pm
Consider this and i know this is not the USA, but in 1974 my dad graduated
Glasgow University with a 1st Class (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering.
The day he graduated, he went to his boss at the Joinery (Construction) and
said he had just graduated, the boss then introduced him to a Engineering
company Boss who was there at the site, and got my Dad a Job building Oil
Rigs in the North Sea.
You wouldn’t be able to do that now.
April 22, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
Just remember kids there’s big money to be had in prostitution.
April 22, 2015 @ 12:43 pm
How does the new landscape of the US workforce effect us? We break down the
issue using facts, figures, dollars, and cents.
April 22, 2015 @ 1:00 pm
Getting a college degree was not ever a “ticket to the middle class”,
getting a college degree was something only the middle class and rich did
before the 70s.
Getting a useful college degree is a “ticket to the middle class”, getting
a useless college degree from a shitty college is a ticket to long term
debt and a shit job. Go to a state school and get an engineering degree and
have $20K in debt with a job that pays $65K your first year. Go to a for
profit college and major in sociology and have $60K in debt and if you can
get a job, it pays $30K.
April 22, 2015 @ 1:14 pm
too short and/or too many numbers for me, but i liked it anway :))
April 22, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
Instead of focusing on economic growth, why not direct our focus on
happiness growth? How much money do we really need to make or how much
materials do we need to make? GNP vs GNH?
April 22, 2015 @ 1:48 pm
Great show, but way too fast paced. Take your time when editing the show, I
was overwhelmed by the number of sudden cuts and the speed from topic to
topic. I bet you could easily make a 40min show with all the material you
filmed.
April 22, 2015 @ 2:30 pm
Not one single ugly person here, i smell something bad.
April 22, 2015 @ 3:33 pm
As a European, it really surprised me that Americans work so hard and are
legally not entitled to any paid vacation. In Estonia, you work 40h a week
and are entitled to 28 days of paid vacation. I almost feel like a
socialist now. However I still feel like I would earn more and still go to
an unpaid vacation no problem while working in the US, being a software
developer.
April 22, 2015 @ 3:42 pm
Further improvement in infrastructure and transportation and further
advancements in technology. As long as US stay the course of technological
advancements there will always be potential to fill. Silicon Valley and
California will lead the way. ;D
April 22, 2015 @ 4:25 pm
Great discussion
April 22, 2015 @ 4:39 pm
Why does union membership only matter for MEN? Many female teachers and
other women are members of unions.
April 22, 2015 @ 4:40 pm
I found this to be quite interesting. The audience participation was nice.
The format is better than a bunch of pundits yelling at each other.