This is my problem with this whole debate. Yes I acknowledge that young people face serious challenges starting out in the workforce. Yes I agree that we are importing foreigners to take American jobs and that is hideously evil and unfair.
Once we’ve agreed on that, what then? What is a young adult supposed to actually do tomorrow? What is your plan? Complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan. Calling for policy solutions is fine and I agree that we should work on those. But what about tomorrow? What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?
I say that he must get up in spite of it all, get the best job he possibly can, and work as hard he can to achieve what he can. He has a difficult road. Far from the most difficult compared to the vast majority of humans who have ever lived on Earth, but difficult. I acknowledge that. But he still has to get up and walk. What else would we have him do?
Listen Matt, this is very simple. You don't need to tell young white men to get up and walk. People learn how to do that by age 2. You need to start fighting to abolish the H-1B visa program.
Yes, you're one of the few Con Inc influencers who says H-1Bs should be stopped. But strangely enough, you spend your time defending the ones who think it's amazing? Why?
Get to work ending the H-1B, or shut up.
He truly doesn't get that it's not about being lazy. It's about the reality that the value proposition isn't worth it. We all know that we're going to still have to work. But why is it that Matt can only ever offer the most pithy of platitudes and handwave away these criticisms? Why is it that he cannot address the reality that he is asking people to work their ass off to virtually be a slave. He talks about prior generations having it hard, but I'd argue we're heading quickly to a very medieval system where there is near zero economic mobility. Nearly half of what we earn ends up as taxes. Whether that's income tax, sales tax, various green taxes, death taxes, and for the "lucky" ones things like land tax. Half of your labour is stolen by the state. And Matt thinks the solution is to work harder.
This is the issue people have. If hard work paid off, it wouldn't be an issue. The issue is that people don't want to be slaves. What a shocking revelation.