Last Monday, I was catching up with one of the young sales blokes at my company—a proper English lad.

We were joking about our latest shenanigans with birds. He told me he scored on the weekend when he was with a group of friends (girls and guys), and he bumped into a girl he had two dates with but never contacted back (he did not shag her). She made a scene.

This led him to score with one of the girls in the group on the same night.

When it came to me, I told him I only allowed a girl to blow me, but when she wanted more, I could not be asked when he asked me why.

"I told her that having to listen to her for 3 hours knowing we were going to fuck was too draining an activity for me to be bothered anymore".

He did not believe me until I showed him the texts she sent the following day. He was shocked at my audacity. (I was just being honest, if you ask me.)

"How did she respond?"

"She offered that I stay over."

"Did you?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"She had a very comfy bed."

The conversation turned to his role and his satisfaction with it. Being young and energetic, I wondered how long before he would be disheartened by corporate life.

I did not want to kill his mojo; the latest commission plan he received had already done the job.

"So far, I am doing my job, putting in the years, and I will move if I don't see my interest anymore".

He continued: "Now, if you want to move up in companies, you must go through the management route."

"Imagine having to wank over meetings after meetings all week long."

"Oh mate, tell me about it. It is not going to happen; you have to leave every two or three years to make the most money in companies these days".

"Fast learner, you are young padawan. How come you know so much so young?"

He told me of one of his close friends from Uni who secured a Graduate Scheme at one of the Top 4 Accountancy firms and what he told him.

The way it works is that you enter as part of a promotion. The bottom 30% are ridden off at the yearly appraisal stage, the middle 60% are eventually promoted to the next level after 2-3 years, and the top 10% will be considered for promotion to manager. Maybe a couple will reach partner level.

His friend was apparently in the top 10% and did not receive, after 3 years of good service, a promotion to a management position.

He eventually returned to his direct reports and informed them he had been offered a new job with a much higher pay package. He told his manager that he would be happy to have his salary reconsidered, as he would rather stay in the company and build himself up from within.

His direct report told him he would be stupid not to take the job offer he had.

He could not understand it at first, but the smart cookie he is came up with the correct explanation.

In the past, when money was flowing in companies, they created jobs for promotion and had lavish client events before all of the compliance and the Corporate BS came in. Now, it is only a backfill when you don't have conflicts of interest, bribes, and all the corporate governance nonsense curtailing the whole show.

So you have a plethora of people who have been in management for ages, and the fat has not yet been fully trimmed. Yes, there are some redundancy rounds, but many companies are overloaded with deadwood who have enjoyed entering at a time of defined benefits scheme pensions or, at the very least, in the 2000s heyday but don't want to get off the gravy train.

In the meantime, the younger generations have to fight twice, if not more, as hard for a dwindling amount of places. This is not discounting the net pay once discounted for inflation, which will be around 20-40% lower than the previous generations.

This has a ripple effect on the young adults still living in shared accommodations in Megacities. Without their mom-and-pop helping them with a deposit, their situation becomes more fragile, and they become less desirable in the dating and relationship market.

This economic fragility leads to a relationship fragility where it is hard to project yourself long-term with someone when changing jobs every 2-3 years with the associated risks, not discounting the financial disadvantage younger generations face against their peers.

The fabric of the middle class is slowly but surely disintegrating. This also contributes to hook-up culture or short-term relationships (1-3 years).

Meanwhile, the Boomer Generation and, arguably, Gen X benefitted from more stable positions. They were less prone to travel during their younger years (flights were not as democratised as now), anchoring a more stable lifestyle for establishing families.

But now everything is atomised. Women have become brainwashed by Education, Corporate Pravda, and Mainstream ideology conveyed by the (social) media.

On the men's front, the original backbone of society, a couple owning a suburban family home, is a distant dream for many young adults due to the different economic challenges they face when their family does not provide help. This is not to mention the trolls of potential partners they have to deal with.

This creates a disincentive system for those who want to settle down and are happy to seek short-term fun because they realise they can only attain or maintain it, notwithstanding the associated risks of marriage and other common law long-term commitments with the other sex.

Young women, not necessarily understanding all of the underlying implications of the current state of the economy, are looking at the flattening of the world (through travel and modern communication hubs) as a way to maximise their sexual agency.

Whether they are hoeing around or not, the impression is that they belong to a jilted generation that is satisfied being nurtured with technology consolation gift boxes.

The free-market dynamics of short-term rewards are at play.

When investors do not look beyond a couple of quarters' earnings before selling their stock, employees look at their next move within two to three years after being recruited.

Or women looking at getting quick money schemes from sugar daddies or seeking long-term commitments with fewer and fewer eligible bachelors suffering themselves from a numerical disadvantage.

They try to backdoor their way into a better situation, but most of the time, they get backdoored with nothing to show for it.

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