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Fawad

I guess we can safely conclude this article is applicable only to so-called first world. In Asian countries the situation is almost always desperate, population size and competition is SO TOUGH that candidates just don't get to have a "say" in things.

Plus, in many Asian countries culture plays a role, a "boss" is like a god most of the times, he bestows his "blessings" of "granting" you a job.

Yes, as you can imagine, I've been to both sides of isle in both places, so I can pretty much tell this article is good natured, just not for everyone, which Jean already mentioned.

Regards.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

It was the same in the so called first world not long ago

The only way things change is when a small group of motivated people start to organize, mobilize, unionize.

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Fawad

Yeah that comes later, before that, economic situation needs to be at par with the Western civilisation, which it isn't at the moment, so poverty plays a huge role there, much bigger than here.