Remote Work Has Quietly Eliminated Entry-Level Jobs
Source: The Prof G Pod
The threat to junior talent isn't AI—it's that remote work lets companies hire experienced workers at lower salaries instead of training entry-level employees on-site. This breaks the traditional pipeline where companies invested in junior hires, creating structural unemployment for people trying to start careers, not cyclical joblessness tied to economic downturns. The consumer economy built on millennial and Gen-Z spending power now faces a cohort blocked from entry into the middle class with no mechanism to replace that skipped rung.