Trigger alert!

From a Boomer to a Doomer - if you are right down at the bottom of the barrel, the ultimate victim of the horrible system, the person whom the system actively grinds down...

Perhaps a little introspection is in order. Yeah, I'm a boomer. Big deal, there are boomers among the losingist losers ever. You doomers didn't invent losers.

My millennial son is doing just fine, rising in his company, and is going to buy a house soon.

Wife's best friend has 2 millennial sons, gainfully employed, and own houses.

The same with other friends children, I just give three examples.

Things to ponder:

Maybe it has something to do with attitude

No one owes you anything.

No one owes you a 6 or 7 figure job.

No one owes you a one skill-set for life - if your skill-set becomes useless, develop a new skill-set.

Bring value added to your work.-If you bring no value added to your work, you are mediocre at best Tha man is not your enemy, unless you choose to make tha man your enemy.

For my own case, I've been called to work after retirement because it was difficult to find young people to fill the position. They stressed over minutae. They wanted really high pay without experience, and they had absorbed the teaching that they were the most important person in the universe, before, or now, or forever after.

They all crashed and burned, usually sinking into depression when they found out they were just 1 out of 8 billion people, and about as special as a grain of sand.

So while I probably gave you super high blood pressure, just consider that my advice might have some use, or you can revel in being a loser - it is after all, easier than the work to be successful.

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You're not doing it by proxy with your vote even if you wanted to, because both candidates are firmly on the "China = bad" bandwagon.

That's not really the flex you imagine it to be. China bans western social media apps because they believe it is a corrupting influence on their populace. Or, in other words, their government sees the citizens in much the same way as a parent sees their immature children.

Don't worry, I'm sure the affect will be cancelled out by Russia's meddling on our domestic social media networks. Besides, what's China gonna do anyway, convince people to vote for the anti-China candidate or the anti-China candidate? Yeah, I do realize Trump now claims to have had a change of heart about TikTok, but I think that's mostly just because he hates the idea of Biden getting credit for something he tried to do first.

Then what are you bitching about?

And how successful can they be when they only last an average of five years? (And if you sold them off that quickly, then again, what are you bitching about.)

It's hard to argue with this. Uncontrolled lawless immigration is a disaster on multiple fronts.

It further destabilizes origin countries whose societies invested in the education and upbringing of people who will not see that investment paid forward.

Lack of managed integration increases the chances of ghettoization and follow on societal problems.

It contributes to criminal enterprise and exploitation both in terms of smuggling and exploitive labor once in country.

Flows place strains on government and housing market dramatically inflating property values and with it massive financial strains on legal citizens who did not cheat the system for a "better life".

I don't think you can call it an invasion if you ask for more people and they come which is effectively what the US is doing through its policies.

The current policy of allowing asylum to be exploited as a backdoor to sidestep legal immigration has been around for decades with ample opportunity for both or either party to address it. Seems the donor class want cheap labor and while republicans will pound and scream from the rooftops about invasions they don't really want to fix anything.

It is inevitable that a small startup that becomes successful will, eventually, be taken over by an MBA type, or fail because of the growing pains. And the MBAs may or may not have a clue.

Entrepreneurs are builders, not maintainers.

It really can't be any other way.

I'll sign it without hesitation. Non-competes are illegal in my jurisdiction, and illegal clauses in contracts are void.

Startups around here get hoovered up including the former owners as "consultants". Basically that means you get money for doing nothing, at least as long as you don't try to start a competitor because guess what "consultation" is no longer needed should you try that...

C'mon. Please. When has the free market ever tied the hands of corporations? If that ever happens (and yes, there is indeed that nonzero chance that we're heading into an employer market, at least in some fields), rest assured that the game will be rigged some more in your disadvantage.

The only reason that corporations were fine with government letting "the market" sort it out was that until now, they had you by the balls. Let's wait what's gonna happen should this change.

Here's the thing, though: I am needed. But unfortunately, I'm one of the few.

But that's besides the point. What matters is that the replacement rate of young people vs. old people is only at about 80%. And that's not gonna change in the near future. For every 5 people leaving the workforce, only 4 will join it. Save immigration, of course, but let's face it, you only need so many goat-herders...

And that's the point. It's not just the burger flippers and shelf stockers that retire. It's also the researchers and doctors, the finance gurus and the engineers. Yes, there has never been a shortage of unskilled idiots. And that shortage sure isn't in any danger of growing, considering that the bar to enter the workforce sure rises yet again with AI taking over more and more unskilled jobs. So I don't fear for the low level jobs that they may go unfilled.

What I fear is that high level, senior positions will be hard to fill. For two reasons: First, the aforementioned 80% replacement rate. But even with 100% replacement rate, if we replace our juniors with AI, where should they get the experience to become those hard to find and highly sought seniors?

I never played office politics. I'm allergic. I always knew at every company I joined once they grew large enough to hire people based on having worked at other larger companies rather than because they actually brought value that my time was near an end. Whether I got canned or left wasn't important, just that it is true big companies are about politics and if you're not then you're in the wrong place.

Fortunately there was always another small company to join where I could go back to building things instead of attending meetings to defend and expand my turf or ruin the careers of others which is what big companies are all about.

My father worked at huge old tech company for years. His stories were similar to my experiences later.

If you're not a political animal, don't whine about your small company turning shitty, just move on.

You would've paid much less if you'd bought it online. Diamonds have a huge retail markup.

You asked a jeweler about a product that means less income for jewelers, and you expect an honest answer?

Even a lab diamond is a silly waste of money. Look at diamond and Moissanite side-by-side and try to guess which is which.

You've just agreed that telling him she was pregnant was the wrong thing to do. If he knows, he can alter his decisions based on it, and that's illegal whether he intends it, or even knows, or not.

There's literally nothing he can do with that information that isn't illegal, at that point.

And you've agreed.

How about this one?

People who don't play office politics lose to people who do. Having "toadies" helps you win the game of Survivor. It works because the CEO doesn't recognize actual skill.