to be fair the rain water thing started from a guy who tried to build a mutli-acre lake up hill from a entire neighborhood.
that's for people who believe that only jobs that require degrees exist. I have a friend who make $50/hr as a welder and a 4day work week with only 1 year of schooling. there are good jobs, even if they're blue collar. I do feel bad for the people who have just spent the best years of their youth at college.
it's a good life user, I was out for 4 years at 21. I miss it so fucking much, when my friends are ready for it again we plan on renting sometime next year. I could just outright buy a house now, but the house I want I have to build, modern homes are ugly.
Camden Brooks
As the masses panic, and as the new formerly middle-class involuntary unemployed join the panic, we can expect there to be a race to the bottom as wages are pushed to the legal minimum in all low-skill jobs. Such low-skill jobs that shall remain are mostly in the personal service sector, or ones that cannot be efficiently automated (e.g. cleaning). At this point you can expect retainers to become a thing, and households to, as before, typically have one or two bread-winners, with the rest as hangers-on. If you're too dumb to adapt to the coming labour market, then you better be rich enough to free-ride off of the work of others by investing wisely. Politics - Populism has already taken root, and with the current system of democracy and distribution of voting rights, it is only natural to assume that the masses will vote for individual, undeserved gain. In other words: socialism. Quite unfortunate, but quite unavoidable. That the poor and the ignorant should, when galvanised, hold such sway over the affairs of greater men, is the tragedy of democracy. Taxes will be raised, and public works projects will be instituted to bring the greater part of the involuntary unemployed into work. The money for these projects will have to be borrowed, furthering the deficit. Should a western nation pursuing this scheme declare bankruptcy, expect all hell to break loose. I, however, believe that well before this inflection point, those with the know-how and the capital will flee to save havens, free from the persecution of the masses and with amiable tax laws. Ironically, this only serves to further the destruction of their home nations by reducing its GDP. Of course, nothing is certain. UBI, for example, may be instituted, to chain the masses to a life of mindless consumerism.
Liam King
If your living at home when your 30, unless there is a damn good reason (taking care of sick/disabled parents, house burns and you need a temp place to crash) then wtf is wrong with you?. I was out on my own at age 21 and I never looked back. I'm 35 now. My own house, married, decent job. Nobody helped me, even though I would've got help if I asked for it. I did it on my own. I feel sorry for 20 somethings, you go to college, get dumped out w/debt up to your ass that if your lucky you'll pay off by age 35 and your expected to find a job that pays enough to support you and pay off that debt. I said fuck college and I'm glad of it. No debt load. I got a civil service job. Pension + 401k, no bullshit or stress. Long as I show up on time no one gives a shit. I can walk out at age 50 drawing a full pension for life. Just kick back and do jack shit for 30 years. Meanwhile everyone else is scrambling worrying about paying of school loans and shit. I'm kicking back worrying about nothing. So who's the smart one? The dude who didn't go to college and has zero worries or debt or the dude who did and has debt and stress and other bullshit on a daily basis.
Jace Nguyen
Immigration - If it'll be bad in western nations, with all our capital (in all its forms, human, actual or otherwise), then imagine the carnage the coming epoch will wreck on other, inferior nations, who tend to have a much larger population. Fortunately for them, their ruling classes are not averse to repression, and can potentially manage their instability. Unfortunately, these people, typically the refuse of their host nations, will, given the favourable political climate (altruistic madness), seek greener fields abroad. These greener fields will, of course, be ours. Already we can see the desperate risks many of these vagrants will take for only the slightest chance of a better life in a western nation. Should they be successful, it will regress the IQ of the recipient nation, diluting its capital among more undesirables, and swelling the low-skill labour market with innumerable shameless hordes who will do any job, no matter how debased, to earn their daily bread. And that is just the noble among them! The ignoble, who are clearly in the majority, turn to crime. Rapine, theft. No injustice is too great to inflict on another in comparison to the perceived injustice of racism or any other -ism committed against them by their saviours. A further catalyst for this vast movement of peoples, as if regional instability and the threat of poverty wasn't enough, is global warming and the threat of death and destruction. If you haven't seen the maps of regions which will be most affected by rising water levels and temperature, then I highly recommend you do so immediately. Even an idiot can infer the implications of such a cataclysmic change.
Asher Jackson
tldr, we have to into space colonization or we are all going to get fucked in the ass to death by absolutely everything
Julian Ramirez
you could compress the 3 paragraphs into 4-5 brainlet friendly sentences but good reed
James Torres
What if I live with my parents but pay them rent?
Nathaniel Harris
id honestly rather kms then be a "civil servant" (aka leeching off of taxpayers money) and play pretend that Im actually working for 40 hours a week. some people are not cut out for this life user I wanna do shit and I wanna be rewarded for my contributions thats why Im self-employed and people like you are living off the wealth that people like me create
Landon Morales
space colonization? Just decrease the population to
John Foster
That's why I decided to go to a cheaper community college for two years and then transfer to a better school to graduate while having a part time job so that I wont end up in debt. If you already have a decent service job without college and are making wise investments right now then you are set for life, but the rest of us are going to be screwed over by automation within the next 10 years as those easy stress free jobs disappear much sooner than we anticipate and only certain skills are wanted by companies.
