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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days agoit’s dumb luck, or you were born into money and have the social connections to get high end jobs.
Comment on Anon needs a job
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days agoit’s dumb luck, or you were born into money and have the social connections to get high end jobs.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Socially awkward, 0 friends from school , not born into money, (was never given an allowance or any if the sort, moved out at 17.)
A big part is that I’m good at making people like me (insecure), working hard, and willingness to learn. That sounds boomer, but goes a hell of a long way. And again, I think its because of smaller cities. I would never live in these million person cities myself, and I probably would have no chance there.
That said that was years ago before the world really went to shit. So I’m sure its a lot worse now.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
young people don’t want to live in small cities. they are boring.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 days ago
Here is the thing they really shouldnrealize though.
Most smallncities are close enough to large cities. Especially for how much of theb"exciting stuff" you end up actually doing. And you get a massive sabings in Cost of Living.
Like I am in the middle of Illinois. My COL is superlow. If I want to go to a concert, I can easily hit Chicago, St Louis, or Indianapolis in a 3 hour drive, get a hotel if I need to, and still be out ahead because my rent/mortgage isn’t some rediculous 2000/month+.
oatscoop@midwest.social 6 days ago
That’s what I did, but a good small starter home was $100 – I bought one for under $50k and fixed it up. A decent used car was $5k.
$30k is poverty wages in most places these days.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Well sorry then. I dont really have sympathy for people who are able to work and won’t live where the work is because its “boring”. That sounds a little whiny to me. This is why I’m on the fence about ubi and such. Lazy shitheads that could work and produce value but refuse.
Obviously the disabled or unable to work should have safety nets, yes. But whiny people who dont want to do hard jobs or live in a boring place, sorry, suck it up. For millions of years if you didnt do the hard work, you died. Its not that bad.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why do hard work in a boring place when you can do it in an interesting place?
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Modern economies have so much excess, the vast majority of the population could sit on their ass and have enough to ‘survive’. And the more jobs are automated, theres less need for human laborers.