u/AbleImpact7771

I was talking to a younger colleague of mine a few days ago and I suddenly realized how different the world was before the 2008 crisis. It was a night and day difference. Back then, the middle class felt stable. You could find a good job without a million interviews. I remember once I was sitting in a cafe coding on my laptop and suddenly a manager from a nearby tech startup came up to me and offered me an interview on the spot. It ended with me getting several great job offers even before I graduated, and that was with a decent marketing degree from a regular public university, so nothing spectacular.
Then the financial crisis happened, and after a few difficult years, I felt like outsourcing and global competition moved so many jobs overseas to save on costs. The whole game changed. The middle class got crushed, and honestly, I feel like we never went back to that situation again.