Today I successfully installed RSSOwl onto my computer and am really finding its features useful. While searching and scrolling through RSSOwl's default categories I came across a new podcast called Open Source which has dozens of interesting speakers interviewed on a wide variety of subjects. All relating to. . . you guessed it.
The following smidgen of text is an excerpt from an interview with Alfred Gusenbauer discussing sociopolitical environments and job scarcity,"We are just at the beginning of real consequences for real people. I see two vulnerable groups: Those that are older than 50. Most of the old jobs and the old qualifications are gone. The huge danger is that people over 50 losing their jobs right now won’t be able to enter the market again… The second group is the youngsters, because with this enormous increase of unemployment that we are facing right now, all those that are leaving nowadays universities, grammar schools, technical education schemes, they will enter the labor market and find closed doors. And we cannot predict what this might mean for their social and political behavior… In Greece last year, among university students… this went quite far in terms of public violence and in terms of challenging the state authority. So nobody can predict right now which social and political effects a longer duration of the crisis might have upon different groups. This will be the real challenge for European democracy and for the European welfare state, to hold the social fabric together in times when it is fundamentally challenged…"
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