The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy

Great organizations hire their own janitors into full-time roles.

The short-term-profit seeking that's become pervasive in our economy heavily discourages any hiring you can out-source (and similarly discourages any R&D that won't pay out this quarter).

Organizations that outsource all but their "core competencies" to temp agencies will remain fully incompetent outside their core, and due to extra layer of employment abstraction, they have little chance of seeing a cross-pollination between folks in the undervalued roles they outsource, and overvalued roles they hire for.

edit: I can't help but be reminded of this interesting article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...

I'm pleasantly surprised to see the author comment on a positive aspect of the experience. That is usually not done, or, worse, is done in a manner that negates the overarching point that this a net negative.

It's a good read, but I have my reservations about pieces like this. It wallows in the experience, making of human suffering entertainment, often for better off people who will never experience such. Meanwhile, for all that it provides criticisms, it doesn't suggest solutions. And that makes me uncomfortably aware of the possibility that the article itself is one more means for the most desperate and destitute to be used for the benefit of the relatively comfortably well off.

To paraphrase the old paper towel ad: Is your logistics/warehouse division breeding Bolsheviks?

"When you are poor..."

When you are poor, then every DECENT and legal job is fine.

People say that there is not job and its not true. If you find then you could get. However, most jobs are crap but crap that its legal and decent. My first job was 12h x 7 days, however, i enjoyed and earned money. In my second job, i doubled my salary and so on.

There are a lot of people that simply don't want to work. Usually the first job is crap. But most people want a perfect job without having the degree, experience and expertise.

And if you can't find a job then join the army.