Absolutely but until we improve salary and working conditions, people will flock to more lucrative options. We have to fundamentally change how we pay and treat our foundational workers.

Definitely, we're all just just chasing some kind of stability but boy is it elusive these days 🫤

I totally agree, influencer culture kinda sucks. I just think it's a function of where our society has assigned value. It's hard to blame any individual or generation for recognizing opportunities with the most upward mobility.

It just so happens that those marketable skills at this point in time are best leveraged on social media. I was a paramedic for 10 years while the shortage was drastically increasing. We could go anywhere with our skills but there was no where we could survive on a single job.

Probably cause they've witnessed how that failed their parents and role models. Millennials have been lambasted for spending so much on education while wages stagnated. They're called lazy while working several jobs to make ends meet and still losing the 'American Dream.'

"Failed to participate in good faith negotiations" read failed to accept our dictations or acquiesce to the prices we've bullied other publishers into.

This is why EMS has adopted the Raccoon as our unofficial mascot!

But ya know, just to be thorough let's make sure we pick up enough to try every recipe.

I'm exhausted. I use it mostly for news and learning things quickly cause it's easier to find a condensed synopsis to figure out what deserves a deep dive. Now we've been handed a Trojan horse and asked to accept their magnanimous gift. 🙄