Generation Bubble

Will Work for Work: Nouriel Roubini and Hipster Runoff’s Carles on Labor’s Future

Imagine, then, with so many workers out there laboring for free just to hang onto benefits and to keep downtime off their résumés, how attractive a job offering a wage — any wage — would appear to the many lean and hungry-eyed strivers forced into indigence by the violent economic churn now upon them. And with hotness now the cardinal American virtue, job fairs will no doubt become beauty pageants. The future, as Carles suggests, is one where people with Alpha-Plus bodies perform Gamma and Epsilon jobs, while the hordes of those arranged elsewhere on the Greek alphabet sit and suck stones.