How are you doing today? YOR Health explains how an opportunity to answer that with “Fantastic!” is more than just a dream.
So, How Are You Doing Today?
YOR Health reports that, when asked the simple everyday greeting, “How are you doing?”, the answer for the vast majority of people these days is, “Not so well.” The reason for that is obvious, explains YOR Health: The world economy is a mess, and our economic future is more uncertain than it has been for generations. People are losing their homes in record numbers. Unemployment is higher than most of us have ever seen. Those of us who do have jobs are finding that we are more overworked and underpaid than ever. YOR Health laments that job security has all but disappeared. The whole working environment seems to have gone in a terribly wrong direction.
Economic Turnaround?
According to YOR Health, this has left most people paralyzed with anxiety about how to take care of themselves and their families. Even the most positive people cannot do much more than hope that things “turn around” soon and improve so that we can at least get back to where we were a few short years ago. But, YOR Health asks, do we have any good reason to hope that this will happen any time soon?
Not Quite…
In order to answer that question, YOR Health says we really need to understand how we got in this mess in the first place. Our current economic problems are a perfect storm of three factors. First, it took 130 years for the population to grow from 1 to 2 billion back in the year 1800, but it took only 12 years to grow from 6 to 7 billion in 2011. But, as YOR Health explains, most of that growth is occurring in poorer countries, where people are willing to work for very low wages. So in order to stay competitive, companies in developed nations have been shifting their work to poorer ones. And that means fewer jobs at home, explains, YOR Health.
The second factor, says YOR Health, is that both we and our governments have been spending beyond our means for far too long. Around the world, countries have amassed so much debt that they are no longer able to pay even the interest, reports YOR Health. As these countries are forced to cut back on spending, it will be less and less credit, less loans, less government spending, and less government-supported jobs.
YOR Health reports that the third factor is that in developed countries, we haven’t been innovating enough. And when there’s no innovation, our products and services aren’t as valuable, they aren’t as affordable, and people have fewer reasons to buy anything from us. And, when other countries don’t want to buy from your country, jobs start disappearing, claims YOR Health.
All these factors have come together to turn our working world upside down—leaving FEWER JOBS and LESS PAY—perhaps permanently. A scary thought, says YOR Health.
Cold, Hard Statistics
That may be a scary idea to accept, but YOR Health points out that in 1990, the USA had a recession. Approximately 1.7M jobs were lost, and it took two and one-half years to get those jobs back. In 2001, there was another recession. We lost 2.7M jobs, and it took four years to get them all back. In our current downturn, YOR Health notes that 12M jobs were lost. Here we are four years later, and less than 20 percent of those jobs have come back. And in a recent survey, 61 percent of Americans said that they don’t know if those jobs will ever return.
The consensus economic forecasts indicate that unemployment in most countries will continue to be high for several years, exclaims YOR Health. What this means to workers and to their families is clear: Employers will be free to push their employees to the breaking point, because the workers will continue to have few or no options. This is a fairly bleak picture for people who “just want to have a job,” says YOR Health.
This also explains why people are searching in record numbers for opportunities to have their own business. We need to make enough money to support our families and we’d rather work for ourselves than leave our futures in someone else’s hands.
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