The Future of Work is Here – and It Sucks

I woke up this morning and read this essay “Why Your Rent is so High and Your Pay is So Low” and nodded and sighed as I read it. It blows away a lot of assumptions held by older people in particular about “kids today” and “how they don’t work hard enough.” The joke I saw on Twitter summed up this position perfectly:

Baby Boomer: “In my day I worked three jobs!”

Millennial: “I fucking WISH I could GETthree jobs!”

I got my Master’s Degree and started temp work at $11 an hour. This was after wor...