The second job has become normalized among young people to increase their income.
Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, has been labeled as the "glass generation." The awareness of this population group regarding mental and physical health has led many to accuse them of being lazy or overly sensitive.
One thing you learn in software testing is to optimize for the right metrics. It doesn’t matter if your system can respond to a request in under 10ms if it can’t handle a million requests. It doesn’t matter if your click-through conversion is high if your bounce rate is 90%.
Our entire economy seems designed to maximize the wrong metrics. Yes, per-capita GDP is astounding, but twelve million kids don’t have enough to eat. Yes, the stock market is doing well but people are having to work two jobs to get by.
And the really frustrating part is none of the folks in charge seem to get it.