What do you think are the biggest problems of modern society?

[Mr Khan]

TeddostheFireKing said:
I'd say a mentality that people deserve better jobs than they are actually qualified for, namely, when many unemployed people complain about a lack of job opportunities, now I know that there really aren't that many good jobs out there, but far too many people are only looking for good jobs when they should really be aiming a bit lower down the pay scale to average and even poor in some cases

A lot of people can't aim as low as they would like. For instance, having a bachelor's degree more or less disqualifies you from working at McDonald's, even if you'd need a McD's employment opportunity while you look for a "real," job, because McD's will pass you over due to overqualification. Some people have pie in the sky expectations, to be sure, but my guess is relatively few people who are out of work *really* could be working but aren't, but are rather caught in the many, many blind spots of the existing employment system, a system that has only grown more twisted since the bubble burst (like the "unemployed need not apply" phenomenon).