re: Is it really this tough out there for young people?

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You don’t think Muslims think the same thing? That Americans want to enslave them and convert them to Christianity?

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If they thought that, they wouldnt have moved to America.

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It’s why religion is for fricking morons who can’t think for themselves.

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Typical

Dont let the TDS rot the brain too much. You still have 3 years to go

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People say this shite alllll the time but it takes a long fricking time to make the kind of money you’re talking about. Most of those guys struggle a lot, maybe making $30k a year for several, several years.

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Show me a real welder or mechanic making $30k/yr...$14.50 an hour...and I can prove to you he's not very good at what he does.

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it takes a long fricking time to make the kind of money you’re talking about. Most of those guys struggle a lot, maybe making $30k a year for several, several years.

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Yeah, imagine having to invest in yourself and have to work your way up in skill to be able to make more as you gain experience.

Holy fricking shite. You mean like 99% of all the other jobs out there?

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You would have to give up your $12 lattes

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Anyone who still says this shite in 2026 is just painfully fricking stupid

Yeah just budget baw

Always someone else fault.

There’s some truth to this but most of these trades aren’t paying as much as you think. Diesel mechanics can make bank for sure but most trades are still competing with illegals. I work with nothing but contractors and see the paychecks you referring to. Let’s just say the names have changed over the years. Even with trades you wouldn’t think in the refineries and for oil/gas companies. The fact is everything is very expensive and while you might do well as a single young man, it’s very expensive to have a family with multiple children.

Taken from my post to this on the OT:

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It's simpler than technology: there are just too many people in the world.

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That's called "behavioral sink" (google: Universe 25 experiments) and I think it's part of the issue but more a symptom than a root cause.

When basic needs (food, water, clothing shelter) are met, we focus on higher order needs. Once those basic needs are met, it may well be that other needs are skewed (procreation, predominantly) out of the basics category to one of those higher order levels (and in doing so it goes from procreation to non-procreational, or recreational, sex).



Another part of that skewing is that with our basic needs pretty much met as a default (to the point where we no longer wonder "will I eat today?" but rather "how much of which food will I be bothered to eat today?" as an example) we take that time and energy which was once used in pursuit of those basic needs and focus them on the higher order needs. In other words, social issues become more of a focus even to the point where they are considered priorities over basic needs (since those are met as a default, think of it as "perceived needs").

As technology allows for more and more of those more basic needs to be met (sometimes just artificially, like with robot sex dolls, AI girlfriends, whatever), more and more of that energy goes into focusing on social issues and social issues create strife because social issue stances are seen increasingly as a part of Self. This means the strife comes more and more from disagreements on social issues taken in as being personal attacks (attacks on the Self).

As that increases, we become more and more disconnected. That's the foundation for my belief that we are nowhere near ready for the post-scarcity society AI and robots could bring.

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 I assume it's the best time to be a retarded Somali in America, for example.

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They have been successfully defrauding the system for years obtaining millions upon millions of dollars.

Who do you think the retards are in this story?

Quit being a cuck bitch and do something with your life.