20/ "get your story straight" I haven't changed my position at all. "garbageman doesn't pay well" Burea of Labor Statistics stats say otherwise.https://twitter.com/BlackLodgeAgent/status/1108830623651766277 …
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31/ Excellent point! https://twitter.com/SpaceAgeCowboy/status/1108834030038978561 …
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34/ Yeah, the SJW globhomo thing sucks. But read up ; I never said "everything is absolutely perfect". I'm merely disagreeing with the hard line fatalist "everything is terrible and hard work doesn't matter".https://twitter.com/dpinsen/status/1108834588594442266 …
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35/ many such cases! https://twitter.com/therealnuge820/status/1108836835751546880 …
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37/ Yep. I attack
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38/ Nothing I've said above speaks to this - I'm arguing AGAINST "it's impossible to do well", NOT in favor of "it's exactly as easy to do well now as in 1950". https://twitter.com/EmperorCoolidge/status/1108843453155282970 …
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39/ The problem with intertemporal comparisons is that EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT. In 1950, there was a big central hump inthe bell curve. In 2019, there's not. In 1950 college cost X ... but wasn't necessary. In 2019 it costs 10 x ... but still isn't really necessary.
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40/ In 1950 it was almost impossible to set up your own publishing / programming / whatever business. In 2019 it's trivial. So I'm suspicious of "it was easier then", and ALSO of "it was harder then" For who? With what assumptions? Let's agree on this: it was DIFFERENT then
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41/ Exactly how am I out of touch? Be telling NEETS who just want UBI that they can actually be quite successful and own their own homes if they just stop bitching about the Boomers and instead become garbagemen or welders? How is that out of touch? https://twitter.com/PenceElectric/status/1108844624037195776 …
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42/ Agreed! Today you can't get a factory job with a pension (although, honestly, I bet most NEETs couldn't do 1 week of standing at a drill press for a 9 hour shift), but you can work from home editing ebooks for your friend in Chile. It's DIFFERENT.https://twitter.com/RoccamSoccam/status/1108846533057937413 …
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43/ let's be honest with each other: (1) you couldn't rebut my argument re whiny NEETs so you changed the topic (2) it's bigger than most family farms during America's frontier period (3) I get more than half my family's food from it, so it's big enoughhttps://twitter.com/D_R_Ball/status/1108908453773205506?s=19 …
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44/ circling back to this: In 1850 we had pioneers moving west, owning just a hatchet, a knife, one set of clothing, and maybe a whetstone. Find some land, spend all summer working 20 hrs/week on a neighboring farm for food, another 40 hrs girdling trees on your own land.
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45/ All winter long you're splitting wood for your neighbor, 20+ hours per week, in return for corn mush with an occassional bit of bacon, and cutting down the dead trees on your own land. Big fires, night and day, to clear the wood. Next spring, keep working for neighbors >
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46/ in return for borrowing their ox and plow. Plow your land, between and around the tree stumps. Use some of your carefully horded coins to buy seed corn. Plant it. Move out of neighbor's barn and build a sod hut. Weed the corn by hand, with a hoe, for 60 hrs/week.
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47/ Start digging a well. By hand. ...But keep working at neighbor's farm in payment for the use of his pick and shovel, and his occasional help. Haul stones on a travois to line the well you're digging. You collapse into your sod hut every night after 12+ hours of hard work.
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48/ You're 18 months in. Corn is coming up. Corn worms got half of it, but you still clear $20 selling it to the general store - and keep enough to get you through the winter, and plant in spring. Teeth are getting a bit loose bc of nutritional problems. Blacksmith pulls 2.
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49/ Another winter spent splitting wood for neighbors for pay, and sawing wood to make your own house. That $20 is mostly gone: bought a saw, a pail, a froe, some candles, 10 lbs of nails. Spring comes. Rent the ox and plow again. $20 all gone. Plant your seed corn.
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50/ Lather, rinse, repeat. After 5 years of 60 hour work weeks, you have 15 acres, a well, a 1 room house, and three pigs. Your standard of living is objectively 2% of what a modern bus driver has.
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51/ FAST FORWARD 170 years.
@Logo_Daedalus uses his pocket supercomputer to bitch and moan that "the boomers stole all the land and machines and jobs from us - every other generation had it so easy. We've got it so hard." 22 NEETs hit the "like" button. LIFE IS SO HARD, YO!!!Show this thread -
52/ For folks who want to see how their lot in life compares to previous generations, I recommend picking up the Little House on the Prairie books. (a) they're an awesome read, (b) if you strip away the rose-tinted glasses, you realize that life was HARD.
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53/ And, recall, this is a true story set in the most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. People were doing everything they could to get the opportunity to work 60 hrs/week to clear fields, raise corn with their own hands, etc. ...because every other option was worse.
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55/ This is EXACTLY the problem. These "everything was stolen from us" folks use screencaps of 1950s advertising to show how things "were" and what was "taken" from them. You think every single guy in 1950 had a hot blond wife, a red corvette, a ....?https://twitter.com/Advanced_COBOL/status/1109090068441034752 …
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56/ Hard work and long hours are part of the secret. Two years ago I worked for 6 months on a gig. 12 hour days + 3 hour commute. Alarm clock at 4:10 am, back home at 7:30pm. Every Sunday I worked a side job for 8-10 hours. 85 hour weeks. https://twitter.com/BrianEr32944716/status/1109091414347055105 …
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57/ And in those 6 months I paid off half of my remaining mortgage. I hated every minute of that commute and that job. But I did it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ZHLppS5_w …
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58/ If you want to get ahead in life, you work hard. You think a hard STEM major was fun? You think grinding at hard jobs was fun? You think saving much of my salary was fun? Everything has tradeoffs. You want to play 30 hours of WoW or whatever per week, go ahead.
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59/ ....but don't do that and then bitch and moan that the Jews / the boomers / globohomo / the corporations stole from you. There's only one resource you're born with: time. There's only one person that steals it from you: YOU.
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60/ And has feminism convinced a lot of women to be whores and sleep around? Yes. Does automation make it hard to earn a living bolting wheels onto cars? Yes. Are you the first generation in the history of the world to have it hard? No.pic.twitter.com/GNC373017G
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