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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Mar 2019

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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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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Mar 2019

      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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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Mar 2019

      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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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Mar 2019

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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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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Mar 2019

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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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      Roccam's Occam @RoccamSoccam
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      I'm reminded of the quote "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." by L.P. Hartley. It wasn't just that everything was the same but this one thing, EVERYTHING was different. Their perceptions of the different things were even different.
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Mar 2019

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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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      DRB  🏔 🏕 🏂 @D_R_Ball
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      Let’s be honest with each other; 50 acres isn’t a farm, it’s a large garden.
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

      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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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

      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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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

      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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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

      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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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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!!!

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          54/ https://twitter.com/BrianEr32944716/status/1109089838551236610 …

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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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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          Ed Rotski @Advanced_COBOL
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          I get the feeling sometimes that it's like they looked at the Taschen book of 1950s American advertising art and think that's how it was. Also 1950: pic.twitter.com/DDlu1kryHh
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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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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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          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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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          61/ thread https://twitter.com/politifakes/status/1109083925635198976 …

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          62/ "Boomers had it easy" yeah, ok. Hey, what's your draft number, NEET ?pic.twitter.com/TsMYu8Ds9S

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          63/ Congrats, you're comparing a picture of an 18 yo midshipman to a 47 yo me. I am, in fact, ~30 years older than Heinlein was at the time of that picture. You have absolutely DESTROYED my point that hard work pays benefits. Listen to the applause.https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1109183166043049984 …

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          R.Сам  🦋 🐏 @Logo_Daedalus
          .@MorlockP "Wow he's just like me." pic.twitter.com/VxLPNqM65O
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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          64/ But enough about me, @Logo_Daedalus , let's talk about YOU. Upload pix plz (no dik pix; this is a family friendly account). Also, please tell us who your role models are, and how well you have achieved similar levels of success. We want to judge you using your own process

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          65/ Upload pix and list of achievements plz @J34512063 https://twitter.com/J34512063/status/1109184028576485376 …

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          66/ No, actually, older Heinlein was a bit of a weirdo perv. I'm just pointing out that if you want to say "lol you look stupid", you should use a good calibration standard.https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1109185974116982785 …

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          R.Сам  🦋 🐏 @Logo_Daedalus
          He doesn't deny that he thinks he's comparable to Heinlein. He merely suggests he more closely resembles the older Heinlein- the more mature one who wrote works of visionary genius. The man has a PROMETHEUS AWARD ok? That proves it conclusively. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1109185316395585536 …
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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          67/ You also seem to be under the mistaken belief that I get my sense of self worth from the fact that I wrote two books. I don't. Writing is a minor sideline for me. I'm an engineer, a husband, a hobby farmer, and a Catholic. Writing is a $7.50/hour hobby.

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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          68/ holy crap, this is actually you? and YOU are calling ME a cuck and ugly? o m g my dudepic.twitter.com/mWdobk7cLD

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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          69/ have you- have you-

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          70/ have you ever * touched * a girl?

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          71/ I was in the military at the time. I looked decent. Upload pix plz. We'll compare. https://twitter.com/tragiclabyrinth/status/1109188155641466880 …

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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          72/https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=IDsDgBJmb0M …

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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          73/ what's his name?https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1109188368636751872 …

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          R.Сам  🦋 🐏 @Logo_Daedalus
          I'm happily engaged. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1109188125274882048 …
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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          74/ When I was working 60 hours + 15 hour commute + 8-10 hour side gig, I was also serving on my town's finance committee. Just do it. https://twitter.com/tragiclabyrinth/status/1109188710464020480 …

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        28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          75/ I'm listening to these NEETs bitch and moan about hard work. I'm a pansy compared to my dad. He's a pansy compared to HIS dad. That guy fought his way through the Pacific Campaign as a USMC grunt, in a unit that took over 100% casualties, then returned home to work >

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        29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

          76/ as an iron worker. Climbing high steel every day, 12 months a year, riveting and bolting. Building bridges, building NYC. Bought a house for his wife and his 4 kids. Died on the job around age 50. If he heard this NEET bitching, he'd slap that attitude off their faces.

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        30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Mar 2019

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          77/ If you want to put in average (or sub average) work, then content yourself with average (or sub average) results. No skin off my nose. https://twitter.com/apofcam/status/1109189649052794880 …

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