The white-collar breakdown: How AI, unemployment, and broken hiring systems are rewriting the meaning of work
Every era has its quiet crisis. Ours is unfolding not on factory floors or picket lines, but behind glowing laptop screens, in browser tabs stacked with unanswered job applications. For millions of white-collar professionals, the modern search for work has become an exercise in attrition, emotionally draining, algorithmically opaque, and increasingly detached from any recognisable…