generation of Millennials seems to have lost the ability to dream and feels professionally frustrated. Article signed by Marcos Dimenstein
I asked the opinion of a resident of Capão Redondo: what, in his view, prevented the personal achievements of residents of communities. He replied with enviable power of synthesis: “Because they stole our right to dream”. Today, this is a problem that transcends the peripheries, being a generalized picture of insecurity about the future.
The feeling of frustration in the generation of Millennials, especially the middle class, is common, as they grew up in times of prosperity and optimism, but are faced with constant crises and lack of perspectives. They fell into the story of the reward linked to effort, and today there are stories of people who do not have the desired opportunity, precisely because of their over-qualification.
They are people with university degrees, graduate degrees, MBAs, discovering the hard way that, in the middle of the corporate pyramid, there are fewer jobs and competition is fiercer. Without much alternative, they are forced to accept analyst or coordination positions with salaries that are much less attractive than their titles on LinkedIn.
The graduates of 2023 are part of generation Z. Uncertainty is in their DNA and manifests itself in the form of epidemic anxiety. For them, the choice of profession points to a change of paradigms. Affinity-guided decisions gain more pragmatic and functional contours, as career choices follow upward opportunities in the job market. The university degree has been losing its fetish, unable to keep its promises of prosperity alive. Proof of this is the advancement of technical training, which grew by almost 20% from 2013 to 2019, according to government data. They are faster, cheaper and guarantee a specialization with good employability prospects.
We watched the discussions about the future of work with a mixture of fascination and concern. New artificial intelligence technologies, such as ChatGPT, bring the charm of a present worthy of the future, while at the same time we are afraid of an enemy that we do not understand very well. I don’t have the technical repertoire to analyze the risk of man’s domination by the machine, it will be up to me to hope and pray for Elon’s common sense. But we have real issues to deal with now, impacting each of our lives.
A report released by the World Economic Forum predicts that, by 2025, automation and the division of labor between humans and machines will close 85 million jobs in the world. Functions in areas such as data processing, accounting and administrative support are expected to lose the most jobs as the digitization of the workplace increases. On the other hand, the study says that 97 million jobs should arise in the areas of health care, technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
I am somewhat skeptical about the optimism of these numbers, considering that this scenario adds to the process of no return to the precariousness of jobs as a whole. But perhaps this is not the central discussion. If the market trend is for machines to replace operational tasks, leaving humans with more analytical, creative, interpretive disciplines, it is safe to say that this is a process that will affect the poorest.
Even if new technologies can contribute to a new generation of jobs, we will see the chasm of inequalities widen even further, and this is a threat to social well-being worldwide. How we are going to fight extreme poverty is a problem that rich countries, their billionaires and big corporations need to lead with the same enthusiasm that they assume in the climate agenda. There is no simple solution, let alone an effective overall plan.
We are made of roots and wings. Wings are our dreams that make us see beyond and motivate us to achieve. The roots give us the strength to understand what needs to be done on a daily basis to get there. This is a system that creates a fundamental balance in discovering our potentials and place in the world.
Beyond divine discussion, I believe that everyone’s purpose is to find their own. Without it, we are like an actor without a stage. I fear what will become of us when we have to fly without wings.
Marcos Dimenstein is CEO of Catraca Livre and creator of C-Hub, a company specialized in impact communication.
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