Youth unemployed; a time bomb for economies of the world

[ndutndut]

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

The reasons for unemployment is because the government of the given country isn't doing any better in raising the standards of living of the individuals and ther inability to create job opportunities for the citizens has been one major factor that has duky increased the crike rates in the society, because they tend to favour who they know rather than individuals fit for the job.

Furthermore unemployment in many countries is caused by an imbalance between employment and workforce growth leading to intense competition. A large population also contributes to a lack of sufficient job opportunities. This is where the government plays a crucial role in creating numerous job opportunities. Furthermore in this digital era the government must also regularly provide skills training so that children can be more creative in earning an income without relying on the government. It's also important to recognize that in the current era of global markets and free trade, unemployment will undoubtedly be a major problem, as many companies tend to prefer workers from foreign countries.

I agree with your statement. Unemployment occurs because people prioritize appearance over skills which is also a contributing factor to the high unemployment rate. The government should create regulations to address this or companies and the government should collaborate to create unreasonable requirements for hiring employees.

I agree with the title of this topic as unemployment can be considered a ticking time bomb. It's synonymous with increasing poverty, people are vulnerable to debt, the micro economic downturn, and the potential for increased crime.

[YOSHIE]

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

If one of the countries recorded unemployment data increasing, especially for young people, of course this will have an impact on the economy as a whole, of course something like that cannot be ignored and ignored, quick action must be taken by the government.
For example: training unemployed youth to become independent youth, in their respective fields so they can develop and so on.

If the government does not act immediately and does nothing, of course the negative impact on the economy will be worse.
One of them, the economy is sluggish, there are many unemployed people, taxes are decreasing, the minimum number of people paying taxes, because the lack of jobs is caused by not having a company, Investment slows down, also includes increased social burdens, where the state has to pay for subsidies and so on, including health, unemployment is not a trivial matter for the country, it is a serious problem for the country's economic development, it is necessary to find a solution to overcome unemployment.

[Berry2d]

I still believe government has a way out  for the unemployed youths.Since Education is an underground foundation,which a lot of people still believes and stick to.Governments can and should modernize the educational systems in such a way that it corresponds with real world job demands especially in Tech and not just only university degrees.Expand the needs for digital skills program that prepares them for remote jobs even before they get to graduate.These innovations can produce educational solutions,skills,jobs offers.

I still can not understand your point of view saying the governments has a way out consigning the high rate of unemployment in the society now when we all know all political representatives are only interested in building self wealth and never recognized that of the people that elected them into office .Every year, over 10 million graduates comes out of different schools with zeal to put to practice what they have learnt but the so called representatives after stealing all meant for job creations ends up giving political promises

[sunsilk]

You're right that both has to complement each other and the situation varies on how effective a government is, and a person is if they're willing to work and longing to find a decent job that they want to work with.

Many misses those opportunities that are already visible in them because they're looking for something better. They're not being picky because they know their worth.

But there will be times that we have to grab any opportunity that's within our reach before another better one comes along after grabbing the first ones that we've seen.

It is also important that we do not miss out on opportunities that are close at hand. Some of my friends did just that. They did not work because they did not get the kind of job they wanted, even though there were jobs they could actually do even if they did not match their preferences in terms of salary or type of work.

My first job wasn't the job I wanted, either in terms of salary or type of work, but I used it as a stepping stone before I got a better job. Besides that, I also had to save up money because I couldn't keep relying on my parents' support, even though they provided for me. I thought that if I could earn it myself, why not? At least I could support myself first.

If we are picky with the jobs that we're going to take, it's either not going to get close to us. And that's why as soon as there's one that's come near to us, we better take that.

And that's what I did with most of my former jobs. They're close to me and got close to me and so I've grabbed them. I'm not picky at first because I have no choice and I need to gain experience.

But the time has come that I need to upskill and I've understand how the job market works and how to make myself worthier than before. As they say 'beggars can't be choosers" that also applies in looking for a job.

[Dunamisx]

The youths should not rely on the government if they really care more about themselves and the future that lies ahead of them, because one need to make drastical decision on what could make a room for them and finds something doing without waiting on government, there are many areas of the economy awaiting for younger generations to manifest

[Dogedegen]

I wasn't even talking about me, i am doing just fine. But good luck with that world view after you drop to poverty. But hey, you couldn't be unemployed, when i can have a job. Reasoning 20/20.

If you are unemployed it is only your fault and nobody else's. Instead of blaming everyone else, you should stop indulging in life and learn some skills that will be useful in the future.

Unemployment have been a very big and challenging issues in so many countries most especially in Africa youths and graduates are struggling to get a job, but I’m not completely sure if I will include the western world, you find out that graduates this days are without job and I completely believe that this days it’s no longer about going to school or being educated, the government are struggling to create a job for the masses, and people can also find to get some labourer jobs and we can also observe that the company this days prefers employing people secretly and that secret employment have made this looks like their is no employment, and I have observed that getting white collar jobs, you definitely will require what we call connection from someone who is in a higher level or in governments.

So what? This does not tell us anything. How many people are studying things that are mostly useless or things that are no longer in demand? It is not the government's job to create jobs, I keep repeating that. A bigger government is always worse than a smaller government.

While that is true, then what does that leave Americans with? They can literally hire people to move there and start working for cheaper than hiring an American individual. This goes to show that Americans are expensive labour even in America these days.

The migrants are usually divided into two major groups. Top earning migrants, they take the jobs that need high qualifications. Low earning migrants, they take the jobs that almost nobody wants or that they don't pay well. Most Americans fall somewhere in the middle, even if many are still employed in low paying jobs. Immigration hurts the wage growth of a country. Because the developed world is much smaller than the undeveloped world there is always going to be extra migrants who would work in bad conditions. This is not a good thing.

[BlackBaron]

The youths should not rely on the government if they really care more about themselves and the future that lies ahead of them, because one need to make drastical decision on what could make a room for them and finds something doing without waiting on government, there are many areas of the economy awaiting for younger generations to manifest

There are so many opportunities for young people, as long as they have the skills and the will, they can get them. However, the role of the government is also important, because usually when things go well in the middle of the road usually government policies will have an impact on the work being done even though it never existed before. It usually happens when a job becomes popular and is given more attention by the government.

Sometimes I think like this, why is the government always present when everything is already running, present not to make things easier but to narrow the space for movement. Why don't they touch it first, when they should know first, because they have all the instruments needed to detect the potential of an opportunity.

[Always-Late]

Unemployment is one major Macro-economic problem that affects both developed and developing economies. It carries a dangerous threat that can become disastrous in the future.
A lot of eligible young adults have accumulated certification to carry out employable opportunities, and that number continues to increase posing more pressure, and also an increase in crime rate, including cyber crime, as a result of a vast number being unemployed.
Little wonder writers describe unemployment for youths as a time bomb waiting to explode.

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

If the economy is developing there won't be unemployment I believe.
Big companies and businesses always drop high numbers of their workers when things gets tough, it is happening even in america and other countries that are well developed compare to mine.

People who commit crime here are mostly youths, we know after they are caught or arrested, I guess the olders ones have made up their mind to accept things the way they are but the youth are still under pressure, from their relatives and parents.

Cyber crime is the most popular one, I believe what you meant by waiting for a time bomb to explode, if almost everyone in a country is into cyber crime there is a big problem because if one day all cyber crime comes to an end these people will start to do evil thing when opportunity presents itself.

Youth should stop waiting for government for them to be employed if you cheek the numbers of students graduating from school yearly you won't be advised to acquire some good skill and add to your certificate incase you are given any white collar job you can create one for your self. In a country where their is not working youth finds it hard to secure a job so getting a skill or a business for your self will just be good than waiting for government to get you a job.

[viljy]

Unemployment, especially among young people, is an unsolvable problem. Simply because this problem is artificially cultivated by those in power. This is the so-called market economy, which requires a labor market, competition, etc. Currently, many professions are also losing their positions due to the progress of AI. And people who have studied or even already worked in such a profession are thrown out onto the street. In general, due to the "dismantling" of the middle class in "developed countries", there will be more and more extremely angry people who are well educated and convinced that they have been cruelly deceived (and so it is). The future of these countries will depend on where these people direct their energy (to whom).

[summonerrk]

Unemployment is one major Macro-economic problem that affects both developed and developing economies. It carries a dangerous threat that can become disastrous in the future.
A lot of eligible young adults have accumulated certification to carry out employable opportunities, and that number continues to increase posing more pressure, and also an increase in crime rate, including cyber crime, as a result of a vast number being unemployed.
Little wonder writers describe unemployment for youths as a time bomb waiting to explode.

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

It all depends on which side we look at the problem from.
If we look at it from the government's perspective, labor is a major problem. Firstly, many taxes are not paid into the state treasury, and also, many citizens are not working. This means that this doesn't push the state forward.
But if we look from the perspective of non-working youth, then in fact they absolutely don’t care that they don’t work (if we mean only legal work) because I know many Kryptonians who, for the state, are supposedly non-working citizens, but in fact they don’t earn huge amounts of money and are completely satisfied with their lives.

[gibrab16]

The real issue is that governments are still measuring employment with outdated metrics. The world of work has changed faster than policies and statistics can keep up. Until that gap is addressed, this problem will keep being misunderstood from both sides.

[Johnlomape]

I still believe government has a way out  for the unemployed youths.Since Education is an underground foundation,which a lot of people still believes and stick to.Governments can and should modernize the educational systems in such a way that it corresponds with real world job demands especially in Tech and not just only university degrees.Expand the needs for digital skills program that prepares them for remote jobs even before they get to graduate.These innovations can produce educational solutions,skills,jobs offers.

I still can not understand your point of view saying the governments has a way out consigning the high rate of unemployment in the society now when we all know all political representatives are only interested in building self wealth and never recognized that of the people that elected them into office .Every year, over 10 million graduates comes out of different schools with zeal to put to practice what they have learnt but the so called representatives after stealing all meant for job creations ends up giving political promises

Now that artificial intelligence is gaining control of every sectors gradually, it will get to a time when there will be so many robots taking our jobs instead of humans doing that work because by the time these artificial intelligence robots get there way out of the production processes we might not longer have a job to do again as humans.

Very soon, robots will take over the cleaning services area here the rich will no longer employed real humans to work for them again. There will be so many robots in the streets and that is what Elon Musk is working on when he knows that human efforts will become useless soon due to these machines taking over our jobs. For the countries where their are heavy corruption, it will be worst there because the government will not have plans for the citizens.

[junder]

The youths should not rely on the government if they really care more about themselves and the future that lies ahead of them, because one need to make drastical decision on what could make a room for them and finds something doing without waiting on government, there are many areas of the economy awaiting for younger generations to manifest

I agree with what you said. We shouldn't depend on anyone, including the government. While some people place high hopes on the government for assistance, that shouldn't be our sole determinant of survival, as we live on our own two feet.

We must strive to achieve what we desire. We shouldn't rely on others, including the government, even if they do help. Our future is ultimately ours to determine.

[Fortify]

Unemployment is one major Macro-economic problem that affects both developed and developing economies. It carries a dangerous threat that can become disastrous in the future.
A lot of eligible young adults have accumulated certification to carry out employable opportunities, and that number continues to increase posing more pressure, and also an increase in crime rate, including cyber crime, as a result of a vast number being unemployed.
Little wonder writers describe unemployment for youths as a time bomb waiting to explode.

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

This is just the way that the world is moving - AI and technology are taking over many functions that traditionally might have been done by the younger / lowest paid groups in society. Like self checkouts at supermarkets or automated grass cutting, so the world will have to figure out how to upskill these workers to fill in jobs that are much harder to automate, or at least support them through skilled training or higher level education. It's already happening, especially in richer countries that can afford all the latest technology but there can actually be cost benefits to sticking with the older ways of doing things. New opportunities have also opened up in some areas, like providing streaming entertainment content which can bring in an income if you have a reasonable personality.

[Yeesha]

I still believe government has a way out  for the unemployed youths.Since Education is an underground foundation,which a lot of people still believes and stick to.Governments can and should modernize the educational systems in such a way that it corresponds with real world job demands especially in Tech and not just only university degrees.Expand the needs for digital skills program that prepares them for remote jobs even before they get to graduate.These innovations can produce educational solutions,skills,jobs offers.

I still can not understand your point of view saying the governments has a way out consigning the high rate of unemployment in the society now when we all know all political representatives are only interested in building self wealth and never recognized that of the people that elected them into office .Every year, over 10 million graduates comes out of different schools with zeal to put to practice what they have learnt but the so called representatives after stealing all meant for job creations ends up giving political promises

Both of you, your points are clear and truthful. Government has a vital role to play in the growth and development of our noble nations, and they have the ability to eliminate or reduce the rate of unemployment in the society. They can do that by creating job opportunities for the people or citizens. They have the power to control and change many things, but they are only interested in the growth and development of their own lives and that of their loved ones.

[hyudien]

I agree with what you said. We shouldn't depend on anyone, including the government. While some people place high hopes on the government for assistance, that shouldn't be our sole determinant of survival, as we live on our own two feet.

We must strive to achieve what we desire. We shouldn't rely on others, including the government, even if they do help. Our future is ultimately ours to determine.

About achieving success is indeed in our hands and we are the ones who determine it, there is nothing wrong with that, but still we live in a country with the government as the highest authority so it is clear that the success of its citizens depends on the system they apply, it is even mandatory for them to prosper their people by building jobs or in other ways, you know even if you are unemployed you still pay taxes to them, all the needs you buy no matter how cheap it all has taxes.
Developed countries are countries with a clear government system.

[passwordnow]

I agree with what you said. We shouldn't depend on anyone, including the government. While some people place high hopes on the government for assistance, that shouldn't be our sole determinant of survival, as we live on our own two feet.

While we shouldn't rely on the government, it is their sole duty to help their constituents for almost every service that's available from them. But I agree that even they're functioning well or not, we have to walk on our own feet and find our paths and destinies through own choices.

We must strive to achieve what we desire. We shouldn't rely on others, including the government, even if they do help. Our future is ultimately ours to determine.

There is a helping hand needed for one to become successful and one of it is from the government. But it seems that most people aren't relying on them anymore unless you're living in a good country that has a very well functioning government system.

[katanic97]

Unemployment is one major Macro-economic problem that affects both developed and developing economies. It carries a dangerous threat that can become disastrous in the future.
A lot of eligible young adults have accumulated certification to carry out employable opportunities, and that number continues to increase posing more pressure, and also an increase in crime rate, including cyber crime, as a result of a vast number being unemployed.
Little wonder writers describe unemployment for youths as a time bomb waiting to explode.

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

This is just the way that the world is moving - AI and technology are taking over many functions that traditionally might have been done by the younger / lowest paid groups in society. Like self checkouts at supermarkets or automated grass cutting, so the world will have to figure out how to upskill these workers to fill in jobs that are much harder to automate, or at least support them through skilled training or higher level education. It's already happening, especially in richer countries that can afford all the latest technology but there can actually be cost benefits to sticking with the older ways of doing things. New opportunities have also opened up in some areas, like providing streaming entertainment content which can bring in an income if you have a reasonable personality.

t’s not all about AI , people have generally become lazy. There are jobs that AI can do and completely replace humans in, but can AI replace a doctor or a surgeon? A chef? An electrician, and so on? I don’t think it can, and i don’t think it ever will. The real problem is that people, especially younger generations, are not willing to improve themselves or learn something new. Instead, everyone wants a desk job, to work on a computer with fixed working hours or ideally to get paid without doing anything at all.Of course, there are always exceptions and young people who want to work, learn, and improve themselves. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of them, and this will truly become a "bomb" waiting to explode.

[EarnOnVictor]

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Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

Unemployment is truly a time bomb when it's becoming alarming, because a hungry man is an angry man, and such could do anything due to desperation, even before he thinks of regretting it later. Unemployment could corrupt the good souls, and could push people into all sorts of crimes in society.

And I tell you, all faults are right on the government, especially in the developing countries, their corruption and anti-people/anti-economy policies always drive the situation even southwards. The good thing is that there is always hope when there's is a good leader, but the bad thing is that it takes time, even as the bad leaders makes it difficult for the good ones to take over.

[alastantiger]

Does governments need to do more, or have these unemployed youths failed to adapt?

This question is often framed as government failure versus youth failure, but that framing is too narrow. Governments do have a responsibility to create enabling environments through policy, infrastructure, and realistic education-to-work pipelines for citizens. But when certification grows faster than actual job creation, the system will always produce frustration by design, not by accident. In that context, rising crime and informal economic activity are symptoms of structural imbalance, not simply moral decline.

and with that said, adaptation still matters. The nature of work has changed faster than alot of people are willing to acknowledge, and people relying solely on traditional credentials is increasingly risky. Unemployed youths are not wrong for seeking stability, yeah, but survival now often requires skills flexibility, digital literacy, and alternative income models. The problem is not that one side has failed entirely, but that institutions and individuals are adapting at different speeds, and the gap between them keeps widening. It is just so unfortunate.