The life boat || Ashi’s journey #1
When I was born, everyone around me told me that I was lucky.
When I was born, everyone around me told me that I was lucky. Lucky to be born where there is peace, world trade agreements and globalization. It was the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of world peace. It was the beginning of an era of innovations in various areas — food, clothes and technology. I experienced the birth of the pager, the cellphone, of Windows, Mackintosh, the iPod, iPhone, iPad, of Facebook, Google and all these exciting products that made our life better. I was so happy to know the future would be amazing.
Before, I would hear about one innovation, which would get attention from the public, and which companies would work to make smaller and better. But for the past 20 years things have changed : due to fast internet connections I would hear about disruptive innovations everyday, from new players in the industry, such as Tesla In the car industry, Apple in the phone industry … It’s really crazy, I cannot keep up with the pace. All the cartoons fantasy became reality and I am watching. Here comes robots, artificial intelligence, big data … Hold on what will come next ? I am so lucky to live in a vastly changing world, in which I can become a millionaire.
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After all this excitement, I wanted to be part of this fun journey, so as a young graduate, I started to apply for jobs. But it was harder that I thought : I had to apply for the job online, then email the recruiter to express my deep interest, and then pass another 4 interviewers to win the job. The job market always selects quality over quantity, which means I have to compete with all my peer applicants to win this position. And then, corporations’ main concern seems to be to cut on Humans Resources, to replace workers with sophisticated machines, and all this thanks to tax cuts given by the governments to their innovative projects. So all this innovation is making the management richer, but the middle class poorer, or worse off on the job market. What happened to innovation and excitement and being lucky?
What happened to innovation and excitement and being lucky?
The corporate companies have given us many options to choose from — Mercedes offers more than 20 models of car ; if I want to buy a chocolate bar, I have illimited option — organic or non-organic, vegan or non-vegan, many different cacao origins. Even for clothes, you now have to choose between a multitude off models and fabrics — artificial and organic. Having all these options is really good but I am paying a premium price for what was basic. I pay extra money for organic food and I am paying extra for non-artificial fabric, not mentioning that most of our consumable goods are made of petrol-based materials. So just to recap, I am living in a polluted world that uses polluted materials to make the 1% rich even richer.
So how can I answer interview question right ? How can I express my interest to companies who will cut jobs and harm the environment ? Shall I sink with debt, jobless, or take the life boat ? I chose to wait for the Parisian boat so I could learn how to be rebellious and fight for a better world. But I was stuck with another barrier: wait I have to speak French to understand the French Revolution. Do you think the world can wait for me to learn French first?
Signé : Ashi
Illustration : Alix Mains
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