tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post9207946656117153054..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: What Gen Z Can Learn from The MillennialsCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-16249539187921758882018-08-14T09:53:58.474-07:002018-08-14T09:53:58.474-07:00In our simple life, love plays a very specific rol...In our simple life, love plays a very specific role. Now we are able to make your love life healthy and no space for any type of trouble. These all are possible with the help of Dr. EKPEN of SOLUTION TEMPLE. He helped me cast a spell that brought my long lost lover back within 48hours who left me for another woman. 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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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-19879490951233763062018-04-26T09:57:41.466-07:002018-04-26T09:57:41.466-07:00And people wonder why GenX is described as skeptic...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. hellenbaskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14395398317085260763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-55427246874799257842018-04-26T09:55:10.123-07:002018-04-26T09:55:10.123-07:00And people wonder why GenXer's are described a...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. <br /> hellenbaskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14395398317085260763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-56584460358973545722018-04-02T17:33:22.311-07:002018-04-02T17:33:22.311-07:00I can agree with the sentiment for a sizable major...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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-75306786387870712792018-03-15T09:13:11.375-07:002018-03-15T09:13:11.375-07:00I don't agree with this interpretation of ment...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.<br /><br />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.Joanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12173187405871134631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-24488432398538719722018-03-15T06:28:32.184-07:002018-03-15T06:28:32.184-07:00Cowardly, Anonymous, cowardly...
Cowardly, Anonymous, cowardly...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-4929617632410614862018-03-14T19:47:00.209-07:002018-03-14T19:47:00.209-07:00You can't point all Millenials with the same b...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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-41174611069447907002018-03-14T14:08:09.197-07:002018-03-14T14:08:09.197-07:00I'm so glad to be almost out the door of life,...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. <br /><br />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!!!<br /><br />Today's world deserves the fucking decline!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-77598306370657399802018-03-13T20:07:02.176-07:002018-03-13T20:07:02.176-07:00I haven't even read the whole thing, but I don...I haven't even read the whole thing, but I don't need to. This is your finest work. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-86068023098429376102018-03-13T18:31:55.607-07:002018-03-13T18:31:55.607-07:00Bit harsh on some points, but the truth often is.
...Bit harsh on some points, but the truth often is.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />Big is not beautiful.<br /><br />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."<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br />And, just because I am not celebrating this virtue signal, does not mean I hate fat people, or I am body shaming.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Keep up the good work.<br /><br />CBMTTekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07408004987103862573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-31494605088929441452018-03-13T16:49:00.216-07:002018-03-13T16:49:00.216-07:00"this last "tech" bubble still hasn..."this last "tech" bubble still hasn't deflated though"<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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 <i>worse</i> 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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-51733854340497058232018-03-13T14:24:07.745-07:002018-03-13T14:24:07.745-07:00Hand Salute!Hand Salute!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-36347177922518536982018-03-13T13:04:27.911-07:002018-03-13T13:04:27.911-07:00Anonymous 5:25 gets it. Cost of living has ruined ...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.<br /><br />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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-53187333044246899722018-03-13T10:47:34.346-07:002018-03-13T10:47:34.346-07:00"Anonymous said...
...The cost of renting (es...<i>"Anonymous said...<br />...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..."</i><br /><br />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).<br />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. Take The Red Pillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-43111971186128971782018-03-13T10:33:01.036-07:002018-03-13T10:33:01.036-07:00We've been through all this before. Even the ...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:<br /><br /><br />"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. <br /><br />"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.<br /><br />"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. <br /><br />"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."<br /><br /><br /><br />von Mises, Ludwig (1945). Bureaucracy JK Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-32885459646974057242018-03-13T05:25:14.870-07:002018-03-13T05:25:14.870-07:00Hi Aaron,
The reality is that there are some conc...Hi Aaron,<br /><br />The reality is that there are some concepts which you clearly forgot to discuss in greater detail- the cost of living.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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: <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6lqKemRJUAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-50633250769284434232018-03-13T01:07:43.918-07:002018-03-13T01:07:43.918-07:00Dead right Captain.
I have a couple of Gen-Z lads...Dead right Captain.<br /><br />I have a couple of Gen-Z lads at home despite the fact I'm a Boomer.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The younger is currently chopping my wood and looking for an entry point.<br /><br />Neither have had the horror of school because home school; but the elder reads The Guardian which makes dinner fun.<br /><br />For $250,000 USD or, say $40,000 Canadian, they could go to college. But why?<br /><br />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.))<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.Jay Curriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07100960091229282311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-22424761306214253562018-03-13T01:07:05.888-07:002018-03-13T01:07:05.888-07:00Excellent! Excellent! John W Berresfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08996216838592015638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-10100201850243369592018-03-12T20:51:48.498-07:002018-03-12T20:51:48.498-07:00I must say, an excellent diatribe. I would only ad...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. " <br /><br />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. Tucanae Serviceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11935170696138248693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-54133596764038813812018-03-12T19:05:38.630-07:002018-03-12T19:05:38.630-07:00Great essay! I sent it to my H.S. junior and sopho...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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-10781252535798011272018-03-12T17:11:37.563-07:002018-03-12T17:11:37.563-07:00Best article you've written. Better than your...Best article you've written. Better than your books. Worth $50 to read, and that's what I've donated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-25130633150527493232018-03-12T14:08:49.449-07:002018-03-12T14:08:49.449-07:00Excellent post, Cappy!
I will definitely be refer...Excellent post, Cappy!<br /><br />I will definitely be referring others to it.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-55863409866435682422018-03-12T13:41:31.924-07:002018-03-12T13:41:31.924-07:00Certain demographic groups cheat so hard in academ...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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com