[columbo]

Serious question: Is this significantly different from all the similar-themed articles in the 90's and 80's? It seems like the more things change the more they stay the same...

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19980412&id=...

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19941224&id=...

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19881231&id=...

[onewaystreet]

No, this isn't a new trend. The end of job security started in the 80s. Millennials are just the first generation to have no doubts otherwise.

[dataker]

Maybe 90's and 80's, but if it was truly cyclical, one'd have to notice the same with Boomers, who retired in the company they interned

[yellowapple]

It's actually not significantly different, AFAICT. History is a series of infinite loops.

[aetherson]

I'm sorry, this is complete pedantry, but I can't help myself:

I think that you mean history is an infinite series of loops. I don't know how you'd get to the second in a series of infinite loops.

[yellowapple]

No, I actually do mean it's a series of infinite loops. The universe is a fucked-up place, man.

Though, in truth, it's more like a bunch of infinite loops wired in parallel rather than in series, with occasional connections causing one loop to melt into another.

[stephengillie]

Everything that's new is old already.