Are You Stability Stacking?

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Millennials are holding down multiple jobs not because they need the money, but because they know the rug could be pulled out from under them at any time.

Why It Hits: Most millennials haven’t had the benefit of a career safety net due to multiple financial crises, technological disruption, and record student debt. As the largest generation in the workforce enters what are supposed to be their prime earning years (and prime expense years), making sure they’re protected from a surprise layoff has become a financial imperative.

Between The Jobs: A new report from Glassdoor found that millennials are “stability stacking.”

Glassdoor senior economist Chris Martin also noted that stability stacking can involve “building a network that’s adjacent to your career or in a different field altogether, so that you have a network you can draw on should your job go away and job prospects in your industry or your occupation start drying up.”

Final Project: Stability stacking makes sense, given that Glassdoor found that over three-quarters of millennials are “questioning their career path” and a majority are “delaying milestones because of that uncertainty.” While stability stacking is a great way to hedge against going down a single career path that could seemingly disappear at any moment, it also takes a lot of effort to work multiple jobs, network, and build new skills.

No wonder millennials are also experiencing the most burnout.

The Future: Expect some people to go down two different career paths, only to eventually combine them to land their dream job… or just something that pays the bills.

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A24’s announced feature film adaptation of hit internet IP SCP Foundation just ran into a unique copyright issue that could potentially derail the project.

The Big Picture: After the success of movies like Backrooms, Minecraft, and Five Nights at Freddy’s, studios are rushing to capitalize on the demand for internet-native IP that Gen Z already loves. The problem is that large, decentralized communities are often responsible for building out these narrative worlds, complicating the ability to lock down the rights.

Behind The Scenes: Determining copyright for things made online is a lot harder than licensing a book, article, or toy, it turns out.

Case in point: SCP Foundation.

Closing Thoughts: So, how big of a deal is this? The SCP Foundation wiki leadership alleged that, theoretically, “anyone could upload a copy to YouTube; similarly, any commercial streaming service would be free to stream the film without payment to anyone.” That’s essentially a non-starter for the movie as a sound business prospect, which is why no movie has been made about the IP, despite “prior interest.”

The leadership wrote that they’ve been trying to reach A24 to potentially strike a deal, but it’s possible this movie may never get past the stage of a buzzy press release if the legal argument holds up.

Coming Soon: Don’t be surprised if every popular decentralized community storytelling project is currently organizing a Wikidot wiki as you read this.

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66.7% of you voted I didn’t follow at all. in yesterday’s poll: How closely did you follow this year’s Emmy Awards?

“Who cares!”

“Seriously, who cares except the studios and stars?”

“I have no interest in watching actors give each other awards.”

“I would rather read a one-paragraph synopsis.”

“I think awards shows have passed their prime. No one watches them anymore unless you’re a relative of someone getting an award.”

“I attend every year in person, and we go dance all night at the Governors Ball. The perks of years of struggling in Hollywood.”

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🚗 Tesla announced that it’s debuting a driverless hover car next month. Seeing is believing!

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