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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