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@xososaxo Corporate valuations are pretty nutty right now considering so many have sagging net incomes and depression level GDP. JPow and Trump have guaranteed stonk valuations will continue to rise at a blistering pace even if corporations lack the ability to pay out dividends. I’m not the OP...

@brian19 Lol No. The other guy is commenting saying swapping professional full time jobs for part time retail jobs isn’t an issue because average hourly wages are up. When I pointed out that full time hours are different then part time hours leading to a very different income, you decided to...

@brian19 I’m learning so much today, Part time retail jobs are actually better for the economy then professional STEM jobs and that part time and full time are actually the same thing. Thanks for teaching me so much.

@joshfl Except we’re talking about people moving from full time (40 hours) to part time (less then 30), wages would need to increase over 25% to offset the drop in hours. $33.38 x 40 is a very different income then $33.38 x 30.

@jaylee Maybe also looking through the job gain/loss distribution it’s pretty rough. Biggest winners low paying (part time) sectors Retail Transport/Warehousing Culture/Recreation Biggest losers high paying professional sectors Business Finance Science and Technology Looks like we lost about...

@audreyl 48,000 new part time jobs but only a net gain of 41,000 (all in part-time work) does that mean -7,000 full time jobs? If I’m understanding correctly this seems really bad.