Isn't it just a symptom of how the job market works nowadays? This is not even limited to USA.<p>There aren't many jobs where you can move up without moving out, or funding your own company. The information era worker is more like an entrepreneur (seeking opportunities where he can apply knowledge/experience and negotiating pay, working conditions) than the industrial era worker.
<i>"But he doesn’t mind. Buying a house. Investing in a retirement plan. A steady job. Gribbin has little faith in the trappings that once were associated with stability and a secure future. “Most of my peers would never put their trust in investments like that,” he says matter-of-factly. “Why pour all your money into something, when the value can so easily disappear and you lose it all?”"</i><p>That's really what it comes down to, doesn't it?<p>Gone is the perception that a company will take care of you, that there is anything worth saving up for, because any student of recent history is acutely aware of how arbitrarily things can be taken away--because of a shitty cop, because of a medical bill, because of "because fuck you that's why".<p>Things are a lot less stable than they appear.