SilkySifaka, I admit I may sound stupid by arguing this in an ideological manner, but, as LookTwice so concisely wrote, I see this as the remnant - a symptom, perhaps - of everyone's collective desire for more nonsense, and regardless of the amount of things people actually want, the economy still tries to function according to the mean amount of desires (tries to because, of course, it's failing for this exact reason). Just like mobile phone contracts are seemingly priced according to the average amount of messages teenagers send - so everything is biased according to the most greedy. This is why I think, essentially, it could be said to be ideological: the jobs market seems to operate viscerally, and in order to solve that problem the intellect would need to be used.
13 May 2012, 12:00 pm
