if you ever in a million years dare to compare simply working for a living to slavery, you have demonstrated a profound lack of understanding of our present situation. you are not trapped in some demonic capitalist system, you are actually among the most fortunate human beings ever to live. the norm for many centuries was subsistence farming, where all hours with sunlight are devoted to the maintenance of crops and animals just to get enough calories to survive. we, on the other hand, enjoy such general wealth that many of us have still never done any job into our twenties or even later, allowing us time to get educations on advanced topics, time and options to shape our lives and become fully realized .. and STILL people complain as if some unique kind of HARM has been done to them. the lack of perspective is truly mindboggling
If you ever in a million years dare to compare simply working for a living to slavery...
if you are a young person in America feeling like life has done you wrong, i hope you can go spend time in somewhere like rural areas of thailand, vietnam, cambodia, burma, etc. spend the whole day making bamboo traps for eels and placing them out in the fields in the hopes of having something to eat and come back and try to say again how it's just SO AWFUL to have to wash dishes or make sandwiches or help people try on shoes or whatever other entry-level job, all the while completely surrounded with other opportunities to make money, unlike the farmers out in the rural areas i described .. omg, that kind of attitude is not just wrong, it's like completely backward in every way, profoundly misguided. there is nothing whatsoever shameful about doing any kind of useful work
i want people to get the understanding that for almost all of history, humans had no options but to spend all day trying to live.
for some people it is a huge deal when a factory is built close enough to their village. for the first time ever in their family, they have the option to do something other than subsistence farming.
the mentality on /biz and places like it is pure mental poison
people who live better than EMPERORS of the past, convincing themselves they've got it bad, that they are being raped by an evil system. profound loser mentality
i mean they are truly feeling uncomfortable, probably due to lack of purpose, but that is the nature of life to feel at least vaguely uncomfortable.
to be born in an area surrounded, completely SATURATED with opportunity, is an incomparable gift.
baka.
the use of "cucking", "cuck", etc is also really inappropriate. people say it because they have the impression they are doing the work, but the boss is getting paid the most, ie they are working for someone else rather than themselves. it makes sense at first glance. but in the broader perspective it's stupid because the people talking like that have the same opportunities to be the boss that the boss does, but they do not want to do all the things required of the boss.
the boss is getting up at 4am and the boss is done when the work is done, not at a certain time of the clock. the boss is driving people to and from work whose cars are having problems. the boss made a big investment to even start the business. the people using the term cuck could do those things, but don't want to, are not willing to. they put blame on something external when the limiting factor is themselves, as with most things in life
it's extremely perverse because some people act as if they are being harmed by their boss when in fact their boss is providing an opportunity they would otherwise not have.
Hey Boomer...
Shut the fuck up and die
Very nice this is some good larp
You're a massive fag. Life may have been physically tougher back then, but it's mentally tougher now. Wow I wish all I had to do was try to find something to eat all day while keeping physically fit, at least I would be occupied and have a fucking drive to do it
Instead I am confined to working within certain hours of the day and I have to constantly be coming up with ways to """innovate""" or solve some fucking problem that in a unique way nobody has done before, or else they would have already done it and i would be out of a job. Every day is a constant struggle to maintain mental clarity against fatigue, while also having to sit at a desk unable to exercise my body needing to stretch every hour or so just to prevent my blood from fucking clotting and giving me a massive heart attack or stroke. At any moment my """NON KEK""" boss has the free will to just fire me and make me live on the street. I want another job? Good luck when they ask and find out your old job fired you for not being grateful enough
suck my fucking dick and die of Alzheimer's as soon as possible
People back then had it a lot easier than you're implying
This. Read some Ted K you fucking faggot.
HUrray. we can study for 20 years to develop some fucking totally insgnificant discovery that will be obsoltete in 2 years anyway. Meanwhile,.everyone you know is a smartphone addicted zombie who lacks any real human interaction or sense of purpose in their lives. Meaningless people doing meaningless shit to buy meanigless shit to make other meanigless stranger's jealous.
THose fucking sergs and subsitence farmers had freedom and autonomy on a level we can't even comprehend.
This. Read Industrial Society and Its Future.
That's a blackpill.
Why not just save up, buy a farm, and live off the land? Nothing is stopping you. You're just too much of a little bitch and waking up at 4AM every day to tend the crops is too tough for you because you're a bitch.
BE THANKFUL FOR YOUR SERVITUDE GOY
Humans have predominantly been hunter-gatherer. Agriculture is like 10,000 years old. Anthropologists think hunter-gatherer groups worked an average of 2 hours a day. Bringing down a mammoth or a whale meant you were set for months.
Society was a mistake. Stupid religions, class systems, and we are destroying our planet.
In the 1930's, you used to be able to buy a nice house for $5,000 and that was in an area close to a major city like Manhattan. Compute that to 2019 dollars, and you'll see how fucked up the real estate market is these days.
>Not Slave
>OP doesn't understand the basic concept that wage workers have their value stolen from them, when impoverished are offered no upward mobility and get treated the same no matter the workplace. Yes OP, we are such a progressive species in that we went from having slaves who knew they were enslaved and had no choice. To slaves who have been convinced they are not slaves and get to choose their masters. Just wip us you fuck, at least then people will know who their enemies are.
YOU DUMB NIGGA U THINK I KNOW HOW TO FARM AND GOT MONEY TO START A FARM. DAMN U DUMB TYRONE.
> Thinks subsistence farming is a bad thing
Yeah life could be really terrible, waking up early, getting the handful of basic bitch chores done from 6-12 and then relaxing for the rest of the day. Have all winter off. Only have to work balls to the wall during planting and harvesting.
I've been working 12 hour night shifts for minimum wage for the past year and a half. Subsistence farming sounds like a paradise.
If you're getting stolen from, maybe it's time you joined a union or started your own business.
Otherwise decide that your system isn't working and vote out the retards rigging it to favor a certain class.
If that doesn't work, move to a place where your skills will be better appreciated.
If you don't want to do anything to improve your position and bitch and moan about it please kys and leave more resources for the rest of us.
>12 hour night shifts for minimum wage
If you don't like your conditions you should bring it up with your employer or union. If you can't have a living wage working 12 hours a day there's something wrong with your minimum wage and laws governing employment.
Oh I'm leaving the job, I'm not looking for financial advice. The town I live in is created for commuters so rent for a 1 bedroom is like 2/3rds my wage minimum.
But I want to compare that with say your average peasant or farmer who works for less hours, out in the son, with his family and has a hell of a lot more time off and owns the property he's on.
fuck off boomer
also, spending the entire day farming sounds far better and more enriching than this horrid pointless wage slave existence
I was thinking I should write a letter to the President and ask him to pardon Kaczynski. He'll bring more value out of prison than he'll take away. Also he'll desist from terrorism
oh yeah let me just vote out fucking Donald Trump and vote in some scientists who know what the fuck they are talking about. With my single vote. Oh wait I can't, because retards like you can't see past their massive gut and tiny dick and think chanting MAGA MAGA BAKA BAKA WORK HARDER is the solution to all of our problems. My single vote won't do shit against half of America in Hicksville, USA
fuck off
Opportunity in America is staring blankly into a computer screen for 11 hours a day, hands, wrists, and arms burning from carpal tunnel, with absolutely 0 access to healthcare that isn't a scam, while losing over 2/3rd your income to taxes, mandated insurances, and long commutes.
I can guarantee you 75% of the farmers in your little shithole aren't castrated at birth like Americans are. Written like a true wistful pajeet.
>I live in a shit place but continue to live there because reasons
Well who's fault is that?
>Gerrymandered to shit political system
>do nothing to change it because cucked by republicans
>can be president with less votes
>hurr system not broken America the greatest.
>Time off
If you're not working you're not eating. Get a clue on how serfdom works.
>got new hourly job that makes twice as much as last job
>it starts early and ends early so I can work on my hobbies later in the day
>now live in nice bachelor pad where before I used to live in my car
It's nice to be able to afford to go to restaurants and not worry about it. It's nice to be able to have the time to work on my hobbies. It's nice to rent a room.
Call me a wageslave but desu I'd rather do this than either be a salary cuck or god forbid still working in a restaurant. I'm contented easily, so I would have been fine just living in my car and working on my novel, but having this new job is a dream. I get to go to cafes and restaurants to read and write. I can actually go to bars now. I can dress decently though the better quality thrift stores around here. I get to eat good food because I live in the USA and theres so much fucking food everywhere that I can go to the store and get almost anything that fits my cravings. Most of the people in this thread are chronically dissatisfied whiners that believe that they're entitled to whatever they want. Lmao 'wah I'm working for somebody of my own free will and refuse to lower my personal quality of life to take a risk, if I don't get my daily $5 starcucks I am less than human! It's unfair that a CEO makes more than me! My shitcoin didn't make me the money I thought it should have and now I'm mad at people that do jobs for consistent money!' Wtf did your mom breastfeed you till you were 10?
You biz people are strange.
Have at me virgins.
My dad actually had a farm. He bought it for a year's salary. For me to buy the same peice of land would be the equivalent of about 100 years salary.
I actually went to the FSA and NRCS, but the boomer there couldn't even comprehend what I was talking about.
"Just buy a farm bro'. Thanks for your contribution, user.
>tfw not a virgin
>tfw straight A student
>tfw still a NEET and whitey pays for it
Kill yourself.
youtube.com
My only complaint is that all this extra productivity is going into fucking decadent waste across all strata, and unreasonable profit margins at the very top.
The 14 hour work week is a noble dream. Fucking bootlicker.
Wow thanks for the perspective shift OP. You're right that I could be an impoverished gook trapping muddy eels for sustenance. I could be a lot of things, but I'm not. Your premise rests on the idea that you could always have it worse, it doesn't address the issues that exist for people today.
The idea that being the boss is just some (((hard work))) out of grasp is a blatant falsehood. It's a carrot on the end of the stick, that's why it's called wage slavery, because nepotism and connections will always get in the way of the wage slave. You work your ass off while some executive embezzles disproportionate amounts of wealth from the people working in the company. That's including exploiting those impoverished dirt monkeys who are so desparate to live that they'd work as literal slaves in overseas factories. And your privileged comfort and safety come at someone else's expense at the end of the day.
You don't sound like a historian. Serfs live far better lives than modern day workers do. Dig this:
travelandleisure.com
> I don't have to live in my car anymore! I can live in a bachelor pad and eat at Arby's!
> People in this thread were milk drinkers until they were 10, stop complaining.
You moved one level up the quality of life ladder and are mad at other people who want to do the same? Just because you went from level 1 to level 2, doesn't mean people who are at level 3 trying to get to level 4 are a bunch of crybabys.
Poverty was supposed to humble you user.
>i deserve whatever I want for free
Not mad at all at people who want to move up. I'm weirded out by people who call their comparatively rich lifestyles wage slavery as if they were getting literally stepped on by men in suits.
Try again.
Even though I'm fairly successful by modern standards I think if I had the chance to live in a rural setting like the Amish I would take it in a second. Fuck this gay modern Earth. This shit is too complicated. I need good tilled Earth and a community around me. Fuck the BMWs, fuck the big houses.
Yea I've been thinking society would be better off if everyone lived in small less than 10,000 people towns, maybe even smaller, and have everyone in the town have ownership of the businesses in that town.
Think about it, a lot of the social problems come from people being nameless faces to each other, in smaller towns everyone knows each other and looks out for one another.
People treat each other as respectable humans because they know they'll probably see them or someone close to them again, so conducting yourself well in society becomes a larger priority.
Instead crimes by random thugs, people can say they saw Jim's kids committed the crimes.
Anyone cheating, screwing someone over, or sluts banging 100s of guys, they all get properly shamed by the people that all know them instead of siloing their life into an echo chamber of no consequences.
A lot of the economic problems such as wealth inequality goes away because everyone has a stake in how the town does, everyone is incentivized to do well and take care of things. Everyone would be more willing to participate in how the town should be run (i.e. politics) because it would actually affect their day-to-day lives, which reduces any opportunities for corruption.
Quality of life would be improved because you wouldn't be competing with tens/hundreds of thousands to live in a cramped city for work.
The negatives I see are overall economic efficiency would be reduced as things are more spread out but that's a worthy tradeoff imo.
Enforcing a system like this is very problematic and transitioning to it even more so. I think it could be possible for it to naturally happen if there were good ways to incentivize people to move to shrinking towns, but as it is today almost everyone moves to cities because that's where the high paying jobs are.
>the boss is getting up at 4am and the boss is done when the work is done, not at a certain time of the clock. the boss is driving people to and from work whose cars are having problems
This is fucking 10/10 pasta bait
This
unironically the Vietnamese farmers are much happier
Based, redpilled and white
All this could have been avoided if Hillary was elected. Instead you have a zionist worshipping cuck doing the bidding for jews. Next time, how about voting for a Democrat who have the best interests of the people rather than corporations.
That's how inequality works though moron. If everyone around you is just as poor you have nothing to be sad about. The problem is down the street there are instagram millionaires who do nothing and are better off than you thanks to daddy and his political cronies running the show while you shovel shit for them.
Absolutely true. Most people are delusional and can't handle factfulness.
I like and admire you. Let's hang out.
That's a nice idea. But still need culture and traditional festivals to give people an excuse to talk to each other.
In my opinion, based
LET ME LICK YOUR PRIVILIGED BOSS ASSHOLE ME GOOD SLAVE THEY BAD SLAVE
You're wrong, working hours got really worse during the industrial revolution.
There are studies that show that people in the stone age when it was only about surviving worked an average of about 4 hours per day, compare that to your average 8 hours per day + 1hour commute nowadays.
>stolen from them
Do you seriously hold onto the idea in your head that modern workers even do things that have substantial value over and above what their wages are, independent from the value that said efforts *gain* by being "plugged into" the organizations that they work for?
It's nonsensical to describe it as "stealing". Their value is *increased exponentially* by being organized into a coherent work effort, by leadership that adopts more responsibility and an organization that both arranges for that exponential increase and assumes the risks associated with the chance that it fails. Wage workers aren't living in bondage and collecting a subsistence-pittance - they're doing things like pushing papers and buttons that are, inherently, virtually worthless, and they're being given the lion's share of the value which that effort gains by being given to the organization they give it to.
My boss is a literal Jew who inherited the company. He's never around and just pops in for a few hours every other week.
>doesn't know the legal definition of slavery.
from blacks law btw
slavery = Under control by another
involinatry servitude = Under control by another, under duress.
So yea we are slaves, deal with it!
Do it
>t. City fag that played harvest moon and never worked on a farm
>tfw you realise wage slavery is a communist meme designed to invoke basic income.
>it's mentally tougher now
I appreciate everything else you said but this is just dumb.
Imagine witnessing an execution every fucking week. PTSD much?
want the tl:dr? OP is a commie
Nah, just a cold hard capitalist, the best kind.
>that many of us have still never done any job into our twenties or even later, allowing us time to get educations on advanced topics, time and options to shape our lives and become fully realized ..
Because without realizing it, you are living on the exploitation of others, mostly asian people, for your standard of living.
Foxconn factories (pic related).
Too bad you're wrong.
Native Americans worked an average of 30 hours per week. That's how much labor their lives required them to perform.
Today's average American works 50 hours per week.
We're unhappier than we've ever been
Lonelier than we've ever been
More sad than we've ever been
More anxious than we've ever been
But the mccuck mansions and technological advances sure were worth it right friends???!!!
Continued...
Society has also made sure that you can never be totally at ease. There will always be something that requires you to act and submit to authority.
> taxes
> bills
> insurances
> various government registrations
> maintenance activities
I just want to make money off crypto so I can quit my dead end govt job and go back to school or something.
The problem is that even though productivity has been increased 2000% our working hours are the same as they were 100 years ago and the amount we are paid for the time we work is far less.
Having to be forced to work a McDeadEndJob because all industry in our country is gone and still being told that we should smile for the privilege is the problem.
Our corporate overlords sold us out to some chinks who work for cents on the dollar an hour for the same work that drove this nation to it's golden age.
Outsourced production should have high tariffs and their should be incentive for producing here (high tax write-offs.)
At last someone who fucking gets it.
To add on this, the only thing we can do to somehow repair this mistake is to achieve superior communism. A mode of production based on the needs of everybody, and not based on profit. Basically something close to our hunter gatherer way of living, i.e no work, no exploitation of the work of other, no private property of the means of production, no exchange of value, no delegation of power, no state, and of course, no money, but with keeping modern technology, which is accumulated human work, suffering and death.
>the boss is getting up at 4am and the boss is done when the work is done, not at a certain time of the clock. the boss is driving people to and from work whose cars are having problems. the boss made a big investment to even start the business. the people using the term cuck could do those things, but don't want to, are not willing to. they put blame on something external when the limiting factor is themselves, as with most things in life
>it's extremely perverse because some people act as if they are being harmed by their boss when in fact their boss is providing an opportunity they would otherwise not have.
For an independent operation maybe, the majority of employment in the states is the service industry and the majority of the employers are big name.
There isn't a single Walmart or McBoss in America who is going to pick up their employee if they aren't able to make it to work. If someone doesn't show up to work they get fired and they hire someone else because it's an employers market, people are desperate for jobs and if joe shmo can't fulfill their bare minimum requirements then they'll find someone who will. Most chains unless they are franchised do not work where one person is investing a lot of money, it's typically strategic expansion of the home office.
How old are you? 12? You fucking idiots read a book about hunter gathers and you think the shit was some hippie commune. Please tell me your vast experience of being a hunter gather. Probability and observing natural phenomena of pack animals tells me that alot of tribes formed defacto leaders of the group and that mother fucker got snuffed the first chance he showed weakness. We went from hunting to farming and groups just learned to scale. It wasn't Hippies killing fucking buffaloes with their bare hands trandforming into blood thirsty civic warriors.
>living on
America is a bread-basket as far as the things we actually "live on" go, user. There's a hard cap on how guilty I'm going to feel for buying t-shirts and gadgets made by chinks who abuse each other to pump exports.
Aka we have always been savage in some regard just found a new way to transform and scale our ways
The alternative to that laundry list of errands and minor annoyances isn't a carefree existence, user. They were created as alternatives to very serious problems, not contrived just to annoy you while you dream of being a NEET.
>Probability and observing natural phenomena of pack animals tells me that alot of tribes formed defacto leaders of the group and that mother fucker got snuffed the first chance he showed weakness.
You can keep saying retarded shit.
Or you can read this (among others sources).
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
That's nothing compared to watching the fabric of your society slowly unravel and you're powerless to do anything about it
You do know it's a model based on ASSUMPTIONS. The author made a mathematical model on historical interpretations of what occurred. Stop walking around with this notion of you being above everyone because you threw an article with some series equations on it. And then the kicker is, "we will keep the technological advancement". Like bro how the fuck you think you got the little plastic piece of shit in your hand to spread the information you have. Expecting the same results while do something different is just as foolish as expecting different results doing the same thing.
You haven't considered the isolation in modern society. People don't need each other anymore and there has been a break down of social communities. 30% of young men can't get sex...
Also many have literally no one to talk to.
Not only that, but many jobs are unnatural in the sense that you work indoors and are denied sunlight.
They also involve doing one particular task or process repetitively at least hunting had some variation. Different routes, different animals.
Not to mention the constant hatred men get on TV
Suicide rates at highest as well
This guy gets it. I'm 24 now and finally have a job after all this debt yet I feel like all I did was waste six years thinking I'd be happy. I have disposible income and all it does is make me miserable.
There's so much more to life than working it all away. I would be fine if we as a society scaled to 30 hour work weeks and learned to live within our means, but our corporate overlords won't let us and the commies won't let us not have a capitalist lifestyle just with a socialistic twist. Fuck everything I want out.
>You do know it's a model based on ASSUMPTIONS. The author made a mathematical model on historical interpretations of what occurred.
You know there are still primitive tribes currently on the earth right?
en.wikipedia.org
There are lots and lots of studies made about different primitive tribes, all around the world.
Sometimes i wonder what the problem with guys like you is. Were you brainwashed to think primitive tribes were violent savages who dominated everyone and killed on sight?
Why don't you take an interest about them? Primitive tribes are not a complex subject to study. It's not quantum physics or Hegelian philosophy. Don't you have any curiosity at all?
Primitive tribes weren't perfect, there was sometime homicide in the tribe. However, they only worked 15 hours a week for food, and 15-20 hour a week for chores, and they shared resources.
How do their spend their free time?
like being born into a wealthy family?
Family, friends, hobbies.
Also spirituality (Ayahuasca in the Amazon forest).
>hobbies
Any examples?
Painting, singing.
I didnt say all that's why I said probability speaking and I'm not wrong. Sedentarisim and tribal violence was theorized way before the neolithic era. I'm not the one brainwashed into thinking that will all love in kumbaya if we just do x,y,z mate. And your forgetting one thing that these primitave groups do not have competing groups on top of each other. They are isolated and live in Harmony but dont forget for second that if you decide to go against the clan that the clan will respect you. Tell me how do you plan to keep the 7 billion sedentary people from waring with each other for resources and with increasingly less space between the groups. I'm not brainwashed I've just woke up from the dreams of Utopia that all the wanna be neets are trying to achieve. Wanna see technologically advanced but still primitave look at how drug cartels operate because of that scale at which they operate and tell me there is 0 chance of violence that occurs between the groups. Just go out sell this batch of drugs, you belong this group under their protections, you work for a few hours or until batch is sold. I would say 3/4s of the worlds population would have to disappear before this could work.
Of course. Agricultural surplus temporarily extends the carrying capacity of society. But we're stuck in a complexity bind. We either create more and more complex solutions or the system slowly degrades 'till it hits a point of rapid chaotic implosion.
I just want it to happen after I die. Not while I'm in a historical Disneyland.
Listen, I'll try not to be smug prick. Do I think you can establish this as a foundation of society, sure. The mathematical evidence you provide is logical, but to assume the model will clear all Ailes because of depressed people on the internet looking for purpose and want to change the structure of life around is a normal course of action but again your looking for what benefits you and may not make everything better for society. Your still operating from a point of self interest.
a lot of the profit is in capital gains
if Bezos tried to cash out all of his stock, it would crash
in the end, there isn't much difference between AMZN and the shitcoins we profited off in the bull market
Man can not live on bread alone
>be glad you work in a factory and not in a farm
Decent thoughts OP but you won't find acceptance with /biztards. /bizraelis maybe, but not /biztards. Too many worthless idiots who think the world owes them without putting any work in.
>Primitive tribes weren't perfect, there was sometime homicide in the tribe. However, they only worked 15 hours a week for food, and 15-20 hour a week for chores, and they shared resources.
It's not just that life wasn't perfect. Hunter-gatherers had it extremely rough. They starved frequently because they couldn't bank up years' worth of resources. They were afflicted with parasites and were hunted by predators. Most humans didn't survive childhood. It wasn't a garden of eden.
People who think the hunter-gatherer stage is something desirable to return to are revealing a lack of knowledge of human history. The human species was almost wiped out of existence on numerous occasions, with the population dropping down to a few hundred individuals on the entire planet, like during The Big Chill event circa 150,000 BCE, and other events known and unknown.
To be resistant to starvation, you need massive stores of food. For that you need agriculture, a multitude of domesticated crops, domesticated animals, food preservation methods like converting milk into cheese, etc., etc. But agriculture is still very hard, so you need to develop technology to make it more productive, like plows pulled by livestock. Some individuals need to escape the toil of the farm to specialize in inventing and supplying the constituents required by productive agriculture, like extracting ore from the ground and smelting it into iron to make an iron plow. Money becomes an essential abstraction of value, and you must have specialists in it. Money must be amassed in great quantities and invested in new iron mines, &c, &c, &c ...
We almost went extinct in the supposed glory days of hunter-gatherer tribes. Now we are 7 billion individuals rapidly lifting ourselves out of poverty. You might be unhappy at your unaspiring job, but the way you would have things, you'd wouldn't even have existed in the first place.
Good thoughts too. People here idealize "the good old days" but never did a day's worth of farm work.
Go to Youtube and type "300 days alone". There are a two points in the video where the guy could have died if not for modern antibiotics and medicicines.
>if Bezos tried to cash out all of his stock, it would crash
This is a good observation.
People who have never had exposure to wealth think that a person worth $1B has a bank account with $1B in it. That's laughable if you actually have any clue about how money works.
A person worth $1B in their own company's stock might have only 0.1% of that amount of cash (e.g., $1MM) in essentially a checking account. He'd hopefully have another few tens of millions in other relatively liquid investments, say 1–2%. Then some property, say a house worth a few million. So overall, most billionaires, especially tech billionaires, can only access a tiny fraction (e.g., 2–5%) of their net worth on any kind of short timescale. The rest of their net worth is all deployed, at work and at risk, often primarily in stock of their own company.
Furthermore, as a tech company founder, you are very likely to suddenly lose almost all your net worth in a very short time period. It works like this: In 2018, you have $100MM in stock at the company's current valuation which you aren't free to sell, plus perhaps $100–500k in cash, and maybe a house. (Your investors let you cash out around $1MM during the last investment round.) In 2019, your company implodes and your stock is now worth $0, but at least you still have $100–500k in cash, and maybe a house.
Going bust like that is the norm for self-made tech millionaires and billionaires, not the exception. When you understand how it works, you realize that the majority of their money is at work in their companies at moderate to insanely high risk.
I saw it and liked it. He was lucky he had the sat phone and a doctor to talk to, and of course the medicines you mentioned.
>I'm 24 now and finally have a job after all this debt yet I feel like all I did was waste six years thinking I'd be happy.
If you just finished 6 years of school and now have debt to pay back, that was your choice, even if you feel you were somehow tricked by society. You could have gotten just as far ahead in life without school debt, but you didn't know that when you signed the loan.
But don't worry. It's not a fatal or hopeless position to be in; it is completely possible for you to work yourself out of it. Just don't give in to this weak thinking that somehow you are a slave in someone else's dystopian machine just because you were tricked by your own ignorance into borrowing easy money on terrible terms.
Commit to never taking on stupid debt again. Don't get a car payment or a mortgage payment. Research how to maximize your salary and further your career, and how to manage your money well. There are a ton of books, podcasts, etc., on these topics, and many people have dug themselves out of your exact situation.
>yeah we live in a world that sucks but pull yourself up your bootstraps
Fucking low iq slave ape
To be fair, early agriculture was a degeneration of living standards for most people in said socities. Dependence on grains = rotting teeth, stunted growth, and malnutrition.
If you think you're getting cucked now, imagine toiling all day (because your religion/cultural system says you have to) for a priestking and a small small percentage of the population (priests) and then being conscripted for war so the priestking can get more booty.
It did support more bodies but equally distributed happiness? Ha ha no
CONT
See Neolithic bottleneck. For every 17 matriarchal lines that were passed down, only 1 patriarchal line!
The world isn't a morality play though and I'm thankful I'm not a peon during that period.