Friday, July 10, 2009

Conspiracy theory of the moment

Conventional wisdom is that any minute now we're about to get hit by a huge wave of baby boomer retirements, and then there's going to be a desperate need for workers in all fields.

What if that's not true? What if there's never going to be a shortage of workers, they're just telling us this to placate us into thinking that stability and security is imminent?

I have no basis for this theory. All I have is that it occurred to me: if you wanted to placate workers, isn't that exactly what you'd come up with?

1 comment:

laura k said...

I'm undergoing a career change in expectation of those people retiring. I hope it's true.