No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out

[Terry_M]

3. Skimmed it

enough to get the pattern:

1. Draw an arbitrary round number (5 years)
2. Take a situation that would probably have a bellcurve distribution pattern and present the results in stark black and white terms
2a. ignoring the fact that there are people who caught their break at 4.9 years, 4.8 years immediately on the left and people who caught their break at 5.1 or 5.2 years immediately to the right and so on
2b. make sure the narrative is dramatic, satisfies that society is broken angle that millions are addicted to reading
3. Wrap up some self-help style advice around this massively distorted presentation
3b. possibly just let AI handle it, the formula is very simple and the internet is full of things following this formula so AI will probably do a good job.