A similar, though MUCH greater opportunity exists for members of Generation Z. On the precipice of entering adulthood, college, and the working world, this generation has such a learning opportunity to make their lives immeasurably better that I cannot even begin to explain the potential benefits of practicing "Monkey See, Monkey Don't Do." And the reason there is such a great opportunity to improve their lives over previous generations is because of the spectacular, unlimited, and incomprehensibly stupid mistakes the generation before them made - The Millennials.
Let us be very clear.
The time of the Millennials is over. They are now aging out of the age demographic that markers, corporations, media, politicians, and (not to mention) the opposite sex care about. They are no longer the "hot cool 20 somethings," spending other people's money freely, but debt-laden parents of children they can ill afford in housing they can barely afford. And if you look at nearly every aspect of the Millennials it quite literally is a wasted generation, a wasted crop of humans, whose only purpose on this planet was to serve as a warning to others. Never has such a lemon been born into this world, and thus, never has the opportunity to make so much lemonade existed. So if Generation Z wants to avoid the life-crippling, life-destroying mistakes of their elder brothers and sisters, I suggest you look at America's "Butt End of the Joke" generation and glean the following vitally-important life lessons from them.
Your Gender and/or Race Has No Value
Unfortunately (for the Millennials anyway), society doesn't pay for traits. They need skills.
The iPhone you like, the electricity you use, the food you eat, the clothes you wear were not produced by a man's "blackness" just as the car you drive was not produced by a woman's "pansexuality." It was produced by hard working men and women who dedicated their time to learn a skill or trade and then sacrificed part of their finite lives WORKING to build the things you consume and enjoy today.
The problem is learning skills and trades that are in demand takes time, hard work, not to mention the work itself you need to spend on providing something of value to society. And this life of labor is such a terrifying threat to some Millennials they have even created entirely made up genders that do not exist and are not a thing, solely for the purpose of fooling themselves into thinking they have value and/or are of value to society.
They are not. They are often parasitic, collecting some form of a government check, living off of their parents, or living on government grants in colleges and universities, teaching this poison to future college students. Worse, they are delusional, often times mentally ill because living a lie, especially about your sexuality, for 20 years will do that to you.
Gen Z has a choice. You can accept your sex, gender and race for what it is, perhaps even taking some modicum of pride in it, but knowing it offers nothing of value to society. You can accept that you need to produce something of value for society in order for you to have value.
Or...
You can live a delusional lie that because of pigmentation in your skin or because you identify as a "sapiosexual gender fluid" that you have "value" and then scream at society for not providing you any in return.
It is Excellence, Not Participation, That Matters
Excellence in art.
Excellence in production.
Excellence in innovation.
Excellence in education.
Excellence in everything.
But in sparing an entire generation's feelings by refusing to keep score, eliminating GPA's, eliminating valedictorians, and grade inflation at universities, we have produced a generation that has no excellence. Worse, it is defeat, failure, and competition that galvanizes people much like steel to become hardened, improved, and ultimately forged into excellent people themselves capable of excellent things. Sadly, the millennials were spared this forging experience and have become the softest, weakest, lamest generation living at home at the age of 33 and with testosterone levels below their grandparents.
Gen Z has a choice. They can avoid competition, challenge, defeat, failure and pain, in which case they're condemned to become the sad group of "adults" the Millennials are today, or they can embrace it with the idealistic goal of becoming on par with the honorable WWII generation.
You are Not Independent Minded or Unique. You are a Conformist.
No you are not independent minded.
And, no, you are not unique.
What I need you to do is step back, wipe your eyes clean, look at your generation (and every generation of high school students before you) and ask "Do I agree with the majority of my high school, middle school, and college peers?"
If you do, then you are not independent minded and you are not unique. You are a conformist. You do not think. You have been programmed by your teachers. You have not put forth any intellectual effort into thinking on your own, forming your own thoughts and ideas, and are merely a sheep among the flock regurgitating the same talking points you've been conditioned to.
This is not your fault. You have been purposely conditioned and brainwashed in kindergarten through college to think a certain way about everything ranging from politics, race, environmentalism, economics and careers. But when I was in college a girl who:
was majoring in Child Psychology
voted democrat
was a feminist
who believed in the ozone hole (that was the predecessor to "global warming")
and wanted to "just help the children"
was soooo common they were a dime a dozen. They were worthless. They were not unique nor had the ability to be intellectually stimulating.
This doesn't mean you all have to vote republican and wear blazers while sipping cognac, but what you want to avoid is the insanely hypocritical phenomenon where Millennials all claimed they were "independent minded" while they all dressed up in pink salmon jeans, grew out their beards, voted Bernie Sanders, drank craft beers, and could not be more bland, common, conformist or BORING human being if they tried.
Don't say you're "different." BE DIFFERENT.
No, You Don't Have a Mental Illness
Do things like Asperger's, Autism, Bi-Polar Disorder, or Social Anxiety Disorder exist?
Sure.
To the extent that 1 in 4 of Millennials actually have a mental disorder?
No.
What's going on here is very simple, though hard to swallow.
One, Millennials were raised by incredibly poor parents fraught with divorce, broken homes, absentee parenting, outsourcing, and a love for their careers more than their children. And while I am slamming on the Millennials, their parents (Baby Boomers and some Gen X'ers) were absolutely atrocious, namely when it came to doing the "hard part of parenting" aka "discipline." Without a father in the household, or a father present - but too cowardly to discipline his children - it became much easier to just say your misbehaving child had a mental disorder, abdicating any responsibility for your incredibly crappy parenting. Worse, while the child's brain was still developing you administered mind-altering drugs to the child in the hopes of doping him/her out so they wouldn't be a bother to the teacher or yourself. One could argue the drugs themselves caused mental illness later on in life, but parents (and teachers) refusing to raise their children is not a mental illness. It's just horrific parenting.
Two, just like "sex" or "race" Millennials can't wait to rush and claim to be a victim via having some kind of mental illness. Not only does this beget pity and lower standards for lazy millennials, it can also confer financial benefits via claiming "disability" for a government check or perhaps even financial aid and scholarship when it comes to college. Worse, especially when it comes to dating, some particularly evil Millennials will use their made up mental disorder to mentally abuse, torture and control people they're dating.
There is, however, a drawback to faking mental illness, presenting Gen Z'ers yet another choice. You can fake having a mental illness to get all the attention and (sometimes) government money in the world. But whether you genuinely have a mental illness or not, FAKING ONE for decades WILL ENSURE you go insane. Just look at any millennial who claims they have "social anxiety disorder" and you're looking at a 29 year old virgin who still lives at home and can't hold down a job, or worse, a 48 year old Gen X'er living with her cats and sitting in government housing (true story).
"Big Isn't Beautiful" - AKA - There are Objective Beauty Standards
What resulted is something very similar where Millennials replaced hard-earned skills with effortless-traits. Just as it's easier to take fake value and pride in a made up gender, Millennials - too lazy to hit the gym, diet, and exercise - decided to "redefine" what is beautiful and what is handsome. So much so in many of their delusional minds they actually think beauty is subjective.
In came the rush of tattoos, piercings, shaved heads, blue hair. Soy Boys, flooded college campuses with their impeccable grooming habits and easily snapable arms. Feminists vehemently protested looks with "big is beautiful," "fat acceptance," and "slut walks." Even the mainstream real world bought some of the bogus with Target displaying
In the end it was nothing more than Milleannials lying to themselves about the nature of men and women because living the lie was less painful than hitting the gym. Gen Z'ers can live the lie and have a horrible/non-existent sex life. Or you can accept the reality that has been reality for the past 2 million years of human existence:
Women want strong, tall men, with confidence, humor, a touch of aloofness, and a decent income. Men want women with big tits, long legs, a tight ass and long hair...and no ladies, they REALLY don't care about your education or your career.
Your Education and Career are Not the Most Important Things in Your Life
But we told (and the Millennials, Gen X'ers and Baby Boomers believed) it was their career and education that mattered most.
To be blunt, this is a lie told more to young women than it is men. Historically men did have to go out and get some kind of training or education so they could then land a job which would result in a career that would generate the money so they could pay for the family. So for men a career and education held more importance than it did for women. But today both men and women have traded hugs from their children, conversations with friends, and kisses from their loved ones all for
commutes
in traffic jams
to offices
while getting a masters at night
while outsourcing their children to daycare
while incurring more student debt
I'd like to think that seeing your divorced parents, harrowed and haggard from commuting back and forth to work, while shipping you off to daycare and screaming at each other would teach Gen Z'ers this painfully obvious lesson. But since careers and educations have destroyed more lives than helped, I want to make sure Gen Z knows PRECISELY what role careers and educations play in one's life.
Understand that your career is a TOOL by which you use to support and live the rest of your life.
IT
IS
NOT
YOUR
LIFE.
Along the same line, the education by which you attain your career is ALSO A TOOL.
IT
IS
NOT
YOUR
LIFE
And if you don't believe me, all one has to do is look at the Millennials and see that all they have in life is their career and education. Worse, many millennials (ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN) don't even have a career to point to. They merely have a worthless degree in a worthless field that they will waste the rest of their lives vainly trying to make a career out of. And guarantee-you-me if you go and talk to the now-post-menopausal Gen X career women they will admit (though drunk and late at night after a night of clubbing) all they wanted was to be a stay at home mom, raising children, married to a Ward Cleaver-esque husband.
I cannot begin to explain to Gen Z the amount of money, resources, labor, and time that is going to go into propagandizing you to become as miserable as previous generations, trading in humans for a career and an education. But it will happen, and it will happen in college.
College is (Mostly) a Scam
"Follow your heart and the money will follow."
"Any degree is a good degree."
"You need that sheepskin to get your foot in the door."
Worse, is the Millennials (who, just like you were so "independent minded") bought and swallowed whole these lies, dedicating 4-8 years of their youth in college, often times to the tune of $100,000 in debt, all for degrees that are completely worthless pieces of paper. AND NOW they have the gall to demand the taxpayers bail them out of their student loans just like the bankers.
So let us once again be TRIPLY clear as to what is going on.
America's colleges, universities and other higher education institutions are scamming you out of about $750 billion a year in unnecessary tuition, fees, and other costs. In all honesty, education should be free, or near free with the advent of the internet, and you should not be forced by society or employers to commute to a campus, fork over $300 a credit, all so you "might" have the chance to land a career and become a contributing member of society. But with the complete and thorough brainwashing you've received in K-12, not to mention the media, the news, your parents, your guidance counselors, politicians, and the colleges themselves, you believe you are entitled to this "birthright" of a "college experience."
Because unless you go into STEM (engineering, etc.), the trades, Medicine, Accounting, the military, or IT, college is a complete waste of time. Even if you do go to college for a legitimate degree, you still are going to waste two years of your life taking "pre-requisite" classes that have nothing to do with your degree. And these pre-requisites highlight why college is often a scam.
College is not there to "educate our precious future childrensss." It's there as a means to employ otherwise COMPLETELY worthless and unhireable professors and academics who have such worthless degrees they simply can't do anything else in the real world. It is NOT a coincidence that the insanity of 31 flavors of gender, "fat acceptance," "privilege," laughably worthless degrees such as "women's studies" degrees (or any other degree where you study traits and NOT skills), and other such politically correct insanity is occurring on college campuses because that's where society's worthless people flock to and scratch out what pathetic careers they can. And in forcing EVERYBODY to take 2 years worth of these worthless classes colleges and universities not only employ thousands of these worthless people, but reap HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS from you kids every year.
Gen Z once again has a choice. You can follow the footsteps of your older brother who still lives at home at 28, can't find a job with his "Creative Writing" degree, protests for his student loans to be paid off and may still be a virgin.
Or you can major in something that has a job at the end of it (even attending accredited online schools) and become a real adult.
Politics is Not a Substitute for Accomplishment
You will find that many Millennials (despite being "independent minded") fell hook, line, and sinker for the various scams elder generations laid out for them. They are now poor, destitute, debt-ridden and largely unemployable. They are also very likely depressed and suffering an existential crisis as they wonder how and why their 30 years of life on this planet was wasted. It's at times like these people are desperate enough to turn to religion. But not a religion in a traditional sense such as Christianity, Judism, or Islam. Rather a political religion that excuses their piss-poor performance in life and deflects any responsibility for their decisions. Also, a religion that gives them some kind of "value" in life without (again) having to work for a living.
Enter the "isms" and "ists"
"I'm an environmentalist."
"I'm a vegan."
"I'm a socialist."
"I'm a communist!"
"I'm for feminism!"
Again, this is not by accident. Just as you were brainwashed to attend college at all costs, you have no doubt been thoroughly indoctrinated to support socialism (no matter what variant of socialism it is that I listed above). Matter of fact many of you don't even have to become as destitute as the Millennials in order to subscribe to these variant religions of socialism because you are already guilty of choosing a religion because it's easy and it feeds your ego, AND you don't have to work for it.
"We're against genocide!"
"We're for the environment!"
"We're for women's rights!!!"
Well, good for you Gen Z Skippy. Who the hell isn't? Why don't you try out for the football team and hit the gym or get a 4.0 in math instead of espousing idiotic and common sense ideas that take zero calories of energy?
The risk here for Gen Z is again one where laziness wastes your life. Be it the delusional fat girl who wants to lie to herself that big is beautiful. Or the political activist who is going to campaign for Trump or Bernie. Or the all-too-common-and-boring high school student who's "for the environment." What you are doing is replacing work, production, and value with mere "political positions." And just like the color of your skin, the plumbing you have downstairs, or the gender you affiliate with, it has no value. It doesn't produce anything of worth. It won't put food on the table.
Certainly by all means participate politically for whatever cause or crusade you want. But do not make it your full time career where you end up like many shameful Millennials who actually list "activist" on their resume.
Never Trust Anybody Over 30
I use their quote today in delicious irony because it was painfully obvious the Baby Boomer SHOULD HAVE trusted people over 30, but when they themselves turned over 30, THAT'S when their saying became true. And today that saying holds more value than every before.
I would like to say your elders have your best interests at heart. I would like to say people over 30 are wise, mature, full grown adults who have their lives together and know what they're doing. I would like to say you can seek their wisdom and they will guide you down the right path.
But the truth is much worse.
AT BEST you have your parents who do not consciously or maliciously hate you. They do indeed love you and want what's best for you, they are just ignorant themselves about the real world and are just slightly less lost than you are. So the advice you get from them may be well intended, but it will destroy your life just the same.
"You must go to college."
"Any degree is a good degree."
"Girls like a nice, caring, sensitive man."
What is much more likely is you have people over 30 actively and consciously salivating over how they can make money off of you. Worse, is how they present themselves as your friends.
For example teachers and professors.
Do not think for a second they actually give a damn about you. Teachers became teachers not because they wanted to help the children or "change lives." They became teachers because they wanted summers off and didn't want to math in college. This is why the majority of your teachers are extraordinarily unmentionable and unremarkable. This is why school sucks and is boring. Your teachers are NOT primarily motivated by your education, but by making some easy money and avoiding a real job.
Related is the political indoctrination you received. I do not wish to delve much into politics because it's not part of the lessons I'm trying to impart on you, but if you really are INDEPENDENT MINDED, don't you find it ODD 98% of your teachers and professors are always for voting for socialism and the democrats? They ALWAYS want more money? They're always against private schools, but send their kids there? I merely wish to plant a seed of curiosity you might follow up on later, but they do have a FINANCIAL ulterior motive that has NOTHING to do with educating the precious children.
If that doesn't convince you, perhaps you'll agree that paying $300 a credit and $400 a book for two years of college classes you don't need IS INDEED FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED? That those deans and professors counselors aren't your friends but are leeches sucking as much money out of you, your parents, and the taxpayers so you can "maybe" get a college degree and "maybe" get a job? Or do you actually think that "African American Studies" professor is helping some poor black student learn the skills and trades he needs to land a job and be financially successful?
And what about the programming and conditioning you get to put your career and education first and above all else in life? No self-respecting man or woman would suffer or tolerate a commute to a downtown area with traffic and $20 a day in parking fees for a $45,000 a year job. And no self-respecting man or woman would get masters degrees for a mere promotion or the "chance" to get an entry level position.
"Self-respecting" anyway. Good thing they conditioned all those Millennials and Gen X'ers to get masters degrees they didn't need.
And the media? How about the media?
After getting your masters degree (just like the Millennials) are you going to take on more debt because a commercial convinced you to buy a car you couldn't afford? How about the banks offering you low interest rates to buy your dream McMansion neither you nor your future spouse can afford? It's "almost" as if employers and marketers know that if they can have an entire generation in debt, that generation will be so desperate for a job they will work for peanuts and have to take the abuse from their bosses and employers just to make ends meet.
All of these people;
Your teachers
Your counselors
Your professors
Your politicians
The media
Your employer
They're all over 30 and they are licking their chops to take advantage of you.
Conclusion
Having lived four decades on this planet and making many of the same mistakes Millennials have, I cannot in good faith just sit here and watch another generation come online and literally piss away and destroy their lives as the Millennials have. Not only have they destroyed their lives believing in the lies their elders told them, but "destroyed" would indicate some kind of end or finality to their problems. Sadly, they are so mentally warped and so brainwashed, it's quite literally impossible for many of them to salvage what remains of their life expectancies on this planet. They're almost condemned to live mentally tortured lives because of the indoctrination they believed and their refusal to take responsibility for their actions.
The question posed to you young Gen Z'ers is which kind of life do you want to live? And whereas in the past I would have thought the indoctrination and brainwashing you received in K-college would have been so complete you wouldn't have even given this article a thought, the Millennials have so spectacularly failed their horrific trainwreck of a life might jar you into waking up and TRULY critically thinking about the advice you've been given and where that would lead.
This article is merely a bullet point of some of the key lessons I think you can learn from the mistakes of Millennials and others. I strongly recommend that if you are interested in your life and having a successful future you consider buying the following books:
Worthless - The Young Person's Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major
Bachelor Pad Economics - The Financial Advice Bible for Men (and women too)
Poor Richard's Retirement - Retirement for Everyday Americans
Curse of the High IQ - A book for smart students who need perspective as to where they sit in life.
Additionally, if you have a question that is more specific to your situation, you may want to consider hiring my consulting services (which I do charge for).
Finally, if you know of a young Gen Z'er that could benefit from this article, please share it with him or her. Life is too short to have this generation end up like the millennials and it is the least we can do to help them make wiser choices in their lives.
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24 comments:
Certain demographic groups cheat so hard in academic "meritocracy" that it drives everyone else to identity politics. Leftism takes the place of the void left behind from participating in rigged competition. Millennials legitimately worked harder in school than any other generation only to see their potential income sapped by outsourcing (even STEM) and their less educated peers who invested after 2008 made very comfortable returns, while they were stuck paying off student loan debt.
You can blame Obama for a lot of this. You can blame Bush too, for the housing bubble that made everyone obsessed with education because of its association with real estate values. 2000-2016 was a very long time for the economy to be based on absolute foofoo, and this last "tech" bubble still hasn't deflated though.
The Millennials were the last generation that could be fooled by rigged statistics about college educated earnings that were actually a proxy for urban vs rural economics and cost of living skew. Generation Z is definitively urban and they know better than to compare an agriculture major with a Silicon Valley oriented computer science major on equal purchasing power terms. Capitalism in all fairness is objectively a terrible system for accounting for cost of living gaps that shouldn't really exist, especially in the same country.
The scary thing is, when population sink cities can no longer fool internal migrants to replenish their dying liberal work force, they tend to resort to international migrants instead. The great issue we now face is the control of cities and their power over information flows and ultimately people flows.
I'll end this by saying I suspect the time is ripe for another "Great Awakening" religious movement. Politics, economics, and education aren't doing so well.
Excellent post, Cappy!
I will definitely be referring others to it.
Best article you've written. Better than your books. Worth $50 to read, and that's what I've donated.
Great essay! I sent it to my H.S. junior and sophomore kids. Luckly they are both going down the STEM path, but that of course does not ensure success or happiness.
I must say, an excellent diatribe. I would only add one counter point -- Skills aren't worth shit if you don't show up. It is one of the reasons Millenials are so screwed up. The pedophile Woody Allen summed it up pretty well - "80% of winning is showing up on time. "
Trust me, there is some truth in this. I can count on one hand the number of times I have had an interviewee show up hours late. Then they go into a snit when we tell them the position is filled.
Excellent!
Dead right Captain.
I have a couple of Gen-Z lads at home despite the fact I'm a Boomer.
The elder has a couple of start-up gigs in the trades - https://www.google.ca/search?q=Victoria+bmw+diagnostics&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA767CA768&oq=Victoria+BMW+diag&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60j69i57j69i64l3.33487j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - and is billing out at $50/hr.
The younger is currently chopping my wood and looking for an entry point.
Neither have had the horror of school because home school; but the elder reads The Guardian which makes dinner fun.
For $250,000 USD or, say $40,000 Canadian, they could go to college. But why?
Our house has four degrees between Mum and Dad. Great fun. Cost, maybe, 20K back in the day. Very useful. But entirely unrelated to how we make our livings now. Largely because neither of us ever has a "job" received through the grace of an HR department. (The nice ladies in HR see me as over qualified and my sweet girl as "not the right fit" (due to the fact she could do their jobs in ten minutes a day and is not at all shy about it.))
Neither boy is lazy because both want "stuff" which requires work. And it has been that way since they were ten. Nor is that "stuff" the right skate shoe or an iPhone. The elder got his own phone, an old one of mine, because I no longer wanted to be his receptionist. He pays the monthly.
None of this is rocket science. Kids need to know that they are expected to be self supporting sooner rather than later. Figure it out.
Hi Aaron,
The reality is that there are some concepts which you clearly forgot to discuss in greater detail- the cost of living.
There is a legitimate reason as to why a lot of millenials in their 30s continue to live at home. The cost of renting (especially in cities where there are jobs) are absolutely astronomical that salaries and wages cannot keep up. Whether this is due to greed by landlords or foreign investors buying everything up, it still leaves us millenials with no choice. High rents + unaffordable home prices = no hope. In addition, there is no reliance upon keeping roomates as many simply pick up and disappear, leaving the landlord to come after you for the other half of the rent.
Secondly, a lot of us millenials live at home because of the lousy job market. Decades of offshoring, outsourcing and the other nonsense that HR deparments make us go through, have simply rendered us millenial men to not be able to secure fulltime employment. You have even spoken about this in many of your videos. Even after doing everything we were advised to do (STEM, networking, career fairs etc) it is very difficult to obtain a full time job in an affordable area.
So please don't judge all of us millenial men as being soft. We did the best we could and continue to do so. I am not speaking as an entitled spoilt brat, but as a responsible man (no debt, STEM degree,) navigating my way to success in this tough world we live in- in case you forgot your video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6lqKemRJU
We've been through all this before. Even the Woodstocker segment of the Baby Boomers weren't original. Bu the early 20th century "youth movement" does have lessons to teach us:
"In the decade preceding the First World War Germany, the country most advanced on the path toward bureaucratic regimentation, witnessed the appearance of a phenomenon hitherto unheard of: the youth movement. Turbulent gangs of untidy boys and girls roamed the country, making much noise and shirking their school lessons. In bombastic words they announced the gospel of a golden age. All preceding generations, they emphasized, were simply idiotic; their incapacity has converted the earth into a hell. But the rising generation is no longer willing to endure gerontocracy, the supremacy of impotent and imbecile senility. Henceforth the brilliant youths will rule. They will destroy everything that is old and useless, they will reject all that was dear to their parents, they will substitute new real and substantial values and ideologies for the antiquated and false ones of capitalist and bourgeois civilization, and they will build a new society of giants and supermen.
"The inflated verbiage of these adolescents was only a poor disguise for their lack of any ideas and of any definite program. They had nothing to say but this: We are young and therefore chosen; we are ingenious because we are young; we are the carriers of the future; we are the deadly foes of the rotten bourgeois and Philistines. And if somebody was not afraid to ask them what their plans were, they knew only one answer: Our leaders will solve all problems.
"It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes. But the characteristic feature of the youth movement was that they had neither new ideas nor plans. They called their action the youth movement precisely because they lacked any program which they could use to give a name to their endeavors. In fact they espoused entirely the program of their parents. They did not oppose the trend toward government omnipotence and bureaucratization. Their revolutionary radicalism was nothing but the impudence of the years between boyhood and manhood; it was a phenomenon of a protracted puberty. It was void of any ideological content.
"The chiefs of the youth movement were mentally unbalanced neurotics. Many of them were affected by a morbid sexuality, they were either profligate or homosexual. None of them excelled in any field of activity or contributed anything to human progress. Their names are long since forgotten; the only trace they left were some books and poems preaching sexual perversity. But the bulk of their followers were quite different. They had one aim only: to get a job as soon as possible with the government. Those who were not killed in the wars and revolutions are today pedantic and timid bureaucrats in the innumerable offices of the German Zwangswirtschaft. They are obedient and faithful slaves of Hitler. But they will be no less obedient and faithful handy men of Hitler’s successor, whether he is a German nationalist or a puppet of Stalin."
von Mises, Ludwig (1945). Bureaucracy
"Anonymous said...
...The cost of renting (especially in cities where there are jobs) are absolutely astronomical that salaries and wages cannot keep up. Whether this is due to greed by landlords or foreign investors buying everything up..."
The high cost of renting can also be laid at the feet of Leftists (and gutless, weak-kneed politicians) for 'feel-good', disastrous 'rent control' regulation programs that limit the amount that landlords can charge for rent (which results in the reduction of the number of properties that will be available for rental).
HUD can also bear part of the blame for this, for its tyrannic insistence over landlords to rent their property to "minority groups" who are either economically unfit to rent and/or irresponsible/destructive.
Anonymous 5:25 gets it. Cost of living has ruined the economic prospects of the wannabe elite urban educated, and it distorted labor market information for Millennials who didn't have the internet growing up in more rural settings. Millennials weren't nominally delusional about college graduate incomes so much as badly informed, and they are ACTUALLY RIGHT to criticize capitalism for not providing a fair signalling mechanism for this (or for the stupid high working hours in many of the supposedly more lucrative professions), or communicating with them at all while in school.
Socialists are dirtbags and they are predators of the youth, but "history belongs to those who show up." It's hard to feel sorry for the silent majority. Why they ceded the field to a worse world order is an absolute mystery, possibly of the theological sort.
Hand Salute!
"this last "tech" bubble still hasn't deflated though"
Speaking from the inside, I suspect it's not actually a bubble. Tech is merely the last largely non-regulated, meritocratic, mostly-free market. All the money funnels in because where else can it go? Everything else is illegal.
As for the astronomical housing prices, there are two distinct and definite causes. It has nothing to do with "greedy landlords" and almost nothing to do with government subsidies. The primary cause is the massive amount of inflation that entered via government-backed loans at insanely low rates. The inflation was made permanent when the bailouts happened. The second reason is zoning and building codes. Zoning prevents building the necessary structures in the necessary locations. And no, central bureaucrats' arbitrary violations of the 4th amendment are NOT a net benefit; central planning has been proven over and over to be massively inferior to distributed planning aka personal freedom. Building codes, originally intended for marginal safety, are now little more than corporate welfare for contractors and building supply companies. We got by just fine before the 50's when themajority of building codes started in. In fact, there's a good argument that codes cause worse buildings because they require money to be spent on less important things (absurd amounts of insulation) to the detriment of important things (using durable materials like solid lumber instead of the mold-sponge that is OSB) In any case it is now ILLEGAL to build affordable housing.
Bit harsh on some points, but the truth often is.
"You are not independent minded" isn't necessarily disproven because you are doing what your peers are doing. That is not really the definition that the Z's are living under. When I was young and stupid, being original was being different than your parents. Not different than one's peers.
Big is not beautiful.
While I agree with that from a personal standpoint of what I find attractive, not everyone desires slim women, or tall men, or large breasts, or small waists. I know several guys that want a woman with "meat on their bones."
Technically beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is not really the "size" or "shape" it is the forced feeding of it that is the problem.
Do I care that some lingerie model is a "plus" size? No, I do not care. But, when the "advocates" try to force me to celebrate that some fatty is showing off her size 99 ass in an ad somewhere, that is what pisses me off. I do not have to find everyone attractive, and if you do not like that, too bad.
And, just because I am not celebrating this virtue signal, does not mean I hate fat people, or I am body shaming.
Although, I do agree with your assessment of why this is an issue. The Boomers were lazy, the Gen Xers were lazier, and the millenials are lazier than that, and it is easier to try to force society to celebrate your obesity than it is to lose weight, and become an object of desire to the opposite sex.
Otherwise, I have no contention with your points. They are all perfectly valid, and I am sharing this with a lot of people I know who need to read this wisdom.
Keep up the good work.
I haven't even read the whole thing, but I don't need to. This is your finest work.
I'm so glad to be almost out the door of life, because I won't have to witness this amazing Republic being reduced to another shit hole country because of the worthless pussies that are slowly take the reins.
I don't believe in the afterlife, but if there is one I'll enjoy watching these complete IDIOTS suffer in the wake of their piss poor judgement and attitudes. A long time ago my grandfather would say that the world had more horses asses than horses. How prophetic he was!!!
Today's world deserves the fucking decline!!!
You can't point all Millenials with the same brush Captain. I'm in that Millenial but I don't agree with my generation on who to vote for, what movies I should like, etc... But my generation has been coddled too much.
Cowardly, Anonymous, cowardly...
I don't agree with this interpretation of mental illness. It's not either bad parenting or a real disorder. Bad parenting can most definitely cause real mental illness. This is obvious in extreme cases of neglect, especially in the first three years of life.
While I do agree that a lot of "mentally ill" people should just suck it up, I don't think you should overlook the possibility that part of the increase is because the standard of care for infants has decreased to a point where it will cause serious mental problems later on in life. Pretty much all studies done on brain development in the first years of life support this theory.
I can agree with the sentiment for a sizable majority of millenials. I am a late x/ early millenial, being born in '82. I see many 35 yo men living at home with low paying or non existant jobs. More single moms than I care to count. People my age with degrees they can't make a living with, suffering never ending school loans.
Somehow I made it through fine. I attended college for 2+ years off an on, paying it off ass I went while working. I found the working was more beneficial, with faster advancement/pay, without grad school loans. While I am now outpacing local combine family income by myself, degreed peers are waiting tables. It's really bizzare and sad. So many people drank the cool aid and got joke degrees. I bought my first home at 30, and personally sometimes feel like I am behind in earnings/savings, but I look arounds and realize how many others are screwed and don't know it.
Baby boomers don't really care anymore about the changes in society. They are all mostly entering retirement age now. Gen x is realizing that they will not have the retirement of their parents/grandparents. Millenials are in delusion land. Gen Z will have to be the saviors. I'm hoping that people as a whole wake up to the realities of economics and family values.
And people wonder why GenXer's are described as skeptical and distrustful. We quickly found out that everything our parents told us, and and all we were raised to believe was a crock.
And people wonder why GenX is described as skeptical and distrustful. We quickly found out that everything our parents told us about the American dream was a crock. But we didn't melt, we shrugged our shoulders and got on with life.
Lmao, I'm a millennial, everything I was told growing up was a crock, and everything you just said was also a crock. Get this: I applied the Monkey Don't principle over the course of my acquiring a physics/engineering dual degree, and the biggest thing I realized is that we made some hugeass mistakes, and it's too late . Industrial civ isn't viable long-term on carbon worlds, human society has become a dead end dependent on cheap fuel, and our time of advancement is over and will soon turn to regression. So why work hard? It's not intrinsically important to do much of anything except art and music at this point. I put in the minimum at my STEM office job (which fundamentally degrades humanity and isn't actually worth doing) and coast, working on prepper shit in my spare time, and that's still a waste. Capitalism? Socialism? Communism? All ludicrous excuses for us to pretend we can have our cake and eat it too. Good luck in the future folks, it's going to be a hell of a show.
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