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0 pointsvinyl71y ago0 comments

I think the model of staying at a single employer for your whole career then getting a pension is a better model than our current layoff and job hopping every 2-years just to keep up with inflation. Special knowledge of the product is lost, and it takes a lot of time to get up to speed on a new product. Then again, most modern products are throw away garbage that barely lasts two years anyway.

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tbrownaw1y ago· 1 in thread

What is you make a poor choice of job early in your career?

What if your chosen employer runs into bad economic conditions and needs to shrink itself to match?

What if something comes up with family and you need to move to a different state?

The 401k model is much less fragile if life goes less then perfectly.

vinyl7OP1y ago

The difference is sustainability. The current business model is maximizing profits for the shareholders over the next quarter, which will alway result in killing a product in search of higher profits or laying off to make sure net income is higher. In the other model, businesses focus on long term sustainability and consistent income over infinite growth. The infinite growth model breeds a graph like looks like a massive upword trend followed by an almost equal crash as things top out. You can either have a hill with an and up and down, or you can have a consistent much smaller and more constant incline.

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