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I'm not saying things are great for young people. Economic prospects are clearly worse than 20 or even 10 years ago. The climate could be almost unlivable for many in a couple decades. There is a sense of despair and hopelessness which you've personally conveyed. Yet some are doing well. Go to a dance studio, take some lessons and dance with confident, athletic, musical young women or beginners like you.. there are are mixers/parties where there are almost always more women than men and they rarely say no when asked to dance, especially if you have a little skill. I would suggest salsa or swing. Then you're ready for bars with bands, even cruise ships and more formal events. I've posted this before but it warrants repeating. You'll thank me later.
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You think your plight is worse than waiting in bread lines or working as a day laborer in order to eat? And guess what got us out of the depression. Throughout my career I’ve cared for folks from several generation. WW2 vets were the toughest yet the easiest to care for. The most recent generations are the softest and most difficult to care for.
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I just did. There appears to be a plethora of angry young men here. the days of doing better than your parents did as a given are over. We reached the top and are on our way down for many. But there are some that are pulling it off. seems the ones that aren't feel entitled to do better. It's not realistic. They're set up for disappointment. perhaps the bumble crowd is not a representative cross section...
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perhaps they should fight for social security to be there for them. you know, higher, not lower, taxes on the wealthy. the wealth disparity between the very top and everyone else gets larger everyday. This especially hits the lower income people hard. With or without immigration, workers are competing globally. trump even has immigration gold passes for the highly skilled and very rich. Young women seem more satisfied. They are attaining higher levels of education and earning more. Maybe that's why they're only interested in the cream of the crop to date. They seem to understand wealth disparity more and many support leaders like Bernie for that reason. Many of the jobs migrants fill are undesirable to young white men. when they're deported we are already seeing the effects on farms and the hospitality sector. Would you work as a picker of housekeeper?
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what it means is that they are desperate and will latch on to any alternative even if it has the potential (and will likely) make things worse for them eg social security privatization,safety net cuts. how to fix their desperation? become more competitive. work harder. 40% of chinese students are majoring in engineering. 4% of US students are. Low skill workers will always be relatively poor. I didn't get a doughnut! But I was one of the first to get the vax and was happy for it.
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privatizing social security was reasonable when 50% of citizens weren't living paycheck to paycheck. correction: 63% from investopedia Data from Zippia, a career-focused website, showed that 63% of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck as of September 2022, including 40% who earned over $100,000 per year.
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not even close. why do you tell verifiable lies? https://www.calculator.net/investment-calculator.html?ctype=endamount&ctargetamountv=1%2C000%2C000&cstartingprinciplev=1%2C000&cyearsv=60&cinterestratev=5&ccompound=annually&ccontributeamountv=0&cadditionat1=end&ciadditionat1=monthly&printit=0&x=Calculate#calresult adjust for inflation and your not gonna be able to go on a decent vacation for 3 weeks. and how are you going to add to it when you're saving for a house (which is the most sensible early investment). if this happens many gen z's will be eating dog food and losing all their teeth at 60
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Itt’s what it’s possible to do with that data, that the real nightmare begins. What machine learning algorithms and highly personalised targeting can do. It’s a digital coup. An information coup. And we have to understand what that means. Our fleshy bodies still inhabit earthly spaces but we are all, also, digital beings too. We live in a hybrid reality. And for more than a decade we have been targets of hybrid warfare, waged by hostile nation states whose methodology has been aped and used against us by political parties in a series of disrupted elections marked by illegal behaviour and a lack of any enforcement. But this now takes it to the next level. It facilitates a concentration of wealth and power - because data is power - of a kind the world has never seen before. and you thought covid was a hoax. You're being played. Sad to see how easy it is.
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It took years and plenty of money for this Journalist to emerge from suits against her over her broligarchy articles. She won and continues to tell her very believable story https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup