Economist on today's job hunt: applicants could never reach a real human
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-30
Economist Anna Stansbury quotes a bleak account of the modern job hunt: the core problem was that applicants "could not get a real, live human being to speak to them. Ever. About anything." She argues we must ask whether technology is making us more or less human, not just more or less efficient. The post references Mike Vorkunov's report on how grim job searching has become.
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