One of my professors in college literally showed up in the big city with a bag on his back and walked into a random factory to ask for a job, got one assembling bird cages and sleeping on the lot for a few months. After two decades of working moving around the chain, he was "qualified" in dozens of engineering disciplines and was able to just walk into a high paying college job teaching metal working until he retired.
He would tell us this story with the same tone as this tweet, to tell us that something he walked into as a teen now required a degree in a hard and competitive field, which meant not only a huge debt but losing most of your 20s trying to keep up with the difficulty of the degree that left minimal time to socialize or work on the side. And that's hoping you got the job instead of a random Indian who took an online class in his fake country.
The US used to be the biggest industrial center in the world. After Nixon dropped the gold standard they sold off that massive infrastructure to the 3rd world, and now the US is a fake and gay "service economy" which looks good on paper, but its only purpose is to act as a parasite and siphon away any last value that exists.
The "service economy" is basically a giant welfare project from the US government that is only maintained because the US has the strongest navy in the world and can borrow indefinitely because the dollar is the reserve currency. About 60% of our workforce is either directly or indirectly dependent on government spending for employment. Healthcare is either the top or one of the top sectors.
The dollar was already fucked from way before that. Taking off the gold standard had been done de facto when they seized everyone's gold in the 1930s under FDR.
This applies in so many different aspects too, most big businesses would've never gotten off the ground if they had to put up with the regulation, taxes and red tape they deal with now. I've had to stop reading about how companies began because I kept running into details that'd tick me off. The last one was how Games Workshop by all rights should've gone bankrupt during the video game crash but apparently back then you just needed persistence and gumption to recoup your worthless stock. I'd love to see some broke comic shop try to do the same to them these days.
Naturally the people who benefited from this were the first to install safeguards and a handy shield of morality to the barriers they put up.
One of my professors in college literally showed up in the big city with a bag on his back and walked into a random factory to ask for a job, got one assembling bird cages and sleeping on the lot for a few months. After two decades of working moving around the chain, he was "qualified" in dozens of engineering disciplines and was able to just walk into a high paying college job teaching metal working until he retired.
He would tell us this story with the same tone as this tweet, to tell us that something he walked into as a teen now required a degree in a hard and competitive field, which meant not only a huge debt but losing most of your 20s trying to keep up with the difficulty of the degree that left minimal time to socialize or work on the side. And that's hoping you got the job instead of a random Indian who took an online class in his fake country.
The US used to be the biggest industrial center in the world. After Nixon dropped the gold standard they sold off that massive infrastructure to the 3rd world, and now the US is a fake and gay "service economy" which looks good on paper, but its only purpose is to act as a parasite and siphon away any last value that exists.
The "service economy" is basically a giant welfare project from the US government that is only maintained because the US has the strongest navy in the world and can borrow indefinitely because the dollar is the reserve currency. About 60% of our workforce is either directly or indirectly dependent on government spending for employment. Healthcare is either the top or one of the top sectors.
I work in healthcare and its 99% government spending, subsidies, reimbursements etc.
Yeah. We are just delaying the collapse. We probably wouldve collapsed like the soviet union by now.
The dollar was already fucked from way before that. Taking off the gold standard had been done de facto when they seized everyone's gold in the 1930s under FDR.
This applies in so many different aspects too, most big businesses would've never gotten off the ground if they had to put up with the regulation, taxes and red tape they deal with now. I've had to stop reading about how companies began because I kept running into details that'd tick me off. The last one was how Games Workshop by all rights should've gone bankrupt during the video game crash but apparently back then you just needed persistence and gumption to recoup your worthless stock. I'd love to see some broke comic shop try to do the same to them these days.
Naturally the people who benefited from this were the first to install safeguards and a handy shield of morality to the barriers they put up.