Regarding the college degree post, don't fall for it. Take the red pill, you're not going to get a good career making a lot of money: How Gen Y is Completely, Hopelessly and Totally Screwed.

Offensive_Brute · 2013-08-16T15:42:51+00:00

I refuse to surrender my fate to this kinda wishywashy bullshit. You are only truly screwed, when you give up. Career in your field not working out for you? Learn something new. You don't have to go to college, just check a couple of books out of the library, download a couple of PDFs watch a youtube video series, and work outside of the box. Create your own job. Make your own place in society. If all else fails become a criminal TAKE your place in society, through extralegal activity. No, I don't mean robbery and extortion and shit, I mean if you can't get the money to open your own business legally, then do it illegally, and once you see that the business is prospering, then you take the money and invest it in permits and insurance and shit.

The judges and juries, and police, and taxmen ain't paying your bills and buying your groceries. Fuck them.

Clauderoughly · 2013-08-16T14:20:42+00:00

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Offensive_Brute · 2013-08-16T14:26:49+00:00

The thing is that for most job positions and careers after a few years it gets saturated with people willing to do the exact thing you do for much much less, and since for must jobs no matter how smart or hard working you are, good enough is good enough, and cheaper is cheaper.

Taking that into consideration 5 years ago I left the company i was working for and started to venture into sales, of any kind really just sales, products, services, you name it, and after a rough year of learning i finally started to sell well.

Then almost tow years ago I started to look into seduction doe to a bad break up with a insane bitch that left me broken as a man.

And part of the self improvement I experimented was the mantra of "seduce everyone you meet" which is an awesome tool for life and sales itself.

Now I'm making more money that any point in my life, with just a fraction of the work-load.

My point been: In this world there are so many people doing regular job (9-5) they are like automatons just machines that do what they are told, just one of the hundreds of employees a faceless drone.

But as I have found out to get ahead in life, is much more effective to charm and win people, than the actual work you do for those people.

TLDR; Learn social dynamics.

lazlounderhill · 2013-08-16T18:04:05+00:00

This message brought to you courtesy of the Koch brothers. This guy is a corporate shill. Notice how he never broaches the question "who is the National Debt owed too?" It's all "taxes bad, big government bad". No mention of the Iraq War, Afghanistan - he actually says "we're currently at peace". We've been at war for over a decade folks - no mention of it.

Gen Y may very well be screwed, but rest assured the team this guy is batting for doesn't have the answer, and they are precisely to blame - his team is doing just fine (according to plan and on schedule), and they don't give a flying fuck about your future, and they are conditioning you for the future they have in mind for you. Don't fall for this.

The only thing I agree with, with regard to this guy is the "employee loyalty" and "telecommuting thing", problem is he poo poos the notion - conditioning, again. And government oversight of marriage.

Clauderoughly · 2013-08-16T13:58:42+00:00

Meh the truth is somewhere between the middle of the two posts.

You need to be, as the scots say "smart enough to be lucky"

You need to find a career you are happy with, and make the most of opportunities that come along.

I have been in IT for about 12 years, and I am hitting the burnout wall, as well as the fact that the IT market is asking for more, and paying less so rather than struggling on, I am dropping out of it, and re skilling for project management.

There is a high demand for PM's and thus it pays well. It also helps that I am pretty good at it.

Gen Y is craving the sort of job security and conditions the baby boomers had. This is dead and gone, and it is never coming back.

With the globalization of labor, and the walls of international migration coming down, employers have access to an ocean of cheap, averagely skilled labour.

So, the only way to combat that is to become highly skilled, in a market with high demand.

This rules out things like the humanities and Law, because they are both massively over supplied. Law especially.

STEM fields are much better, but you need to be careful which STEM fields you pick. Doing a general Chemistry or Physics degree won't get much other than teaching or Uni work (again, massively oversupplied), but doing anything engineering will get you a pretty good job.

There is money out there to be made, but you need to take a long hard look at the world, and be constantly updating your skillset to stay on top of it.

Also, you need to be willing to go where the work is. I have changed countries because my home country was in the doldrums. If you want a nice, steady stream of work, it means going to where the big centers are.

It also means you might end up working in some weird isolated places as well.

I am currently trying to get back into the resource sector, which means working out in the middle of nowhere, on a mine site.

Yeah, it's hard but it pays insanely well, and because of that it affords me other interests.

People need to adopt a mercenary mindset, and they are fine. Have skills, will travel

dropit_sphere · 2013-08-16T13:50:40+00:00

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Pushnikov · 2013-08-16T18:41:20+00:00

Economic value is determined by what you can produce. This is a slightly older viewpoint, but the contemporary one isn't getting us anywhere, so you just have to admit it's faulty on some level.

What you realize when you begin to produce, and with mass production, is it's really not that expensive to fabricate stuff to give to other people, and there is a big inflation point at the moment that's mostly derived from peoples cost of living. The cost of making and production really hasn't gone up that much - pennies on the dollar, but most of the expense is on labor and oil. Inflation basically.

We're going to hit some rough times because labor demands are going down, and we don't have anything for people to do, and arguably, even less to do as time goes on (3d Printing, etc). Service industries are expanding, but service industries only make inflation worse because they don't depend on production of anything tangible. That means we're exchanging money for something that retains no value. That massage you get isn't exchanged for anything in the future. It's gone. So, the majority of tangible assets you have to rely on today are property and stock markets - a stock market heavily based on service industries. So as service industries start to collapse because of inflationary demands (we can't pay our x to do y because it costs more to do y than we can afford to pay x)... then the shit storm starts.

I don't think it's all gloom and doom though - the major issue is that we're not preparing for a dramatic shift in economic attitudes, and education. You just need better educated people to understand what's going on across the board.

Nutz76 · 2013-08-16T15:57:51+00:00

I recommend that book all the time. It's solid advice IMO, that you should choose a degree that'll have an ROI for any loans you get. What I'd add is that any field you go into should be something that will provide some modicum of status if at all possible. It's a key factor in a man's overall attractiveness.

Note: It's advertised on the Tom Leykis show pretty often too.

cagethepepper · 2013-08-16T21:15:50+00:00

Thanks for this. Very enjoyable video.

ss_camaro · 2013-08-17T11:53:32+00:00

The new feudalism: be or find an alpha entreprenuer and team-build with mutual understanding of tradition and entourage.

bigyellowtwinki · 2013-08-17T17:47:19+00:00

We're just nearing the end of the biggest credit boom in human history. No one can accurately predict what will happen when it ends, so I think the only good advice for young people today is to not take on any debt they can't service (and if they can't figure out what that means, they definitely shouldn't go to college) and gain as much work experience they can (and, failing that, volunteer experience and networking with jobs they want to do).

iseeyou1312 · 2013-08-16T14:40:01+00:00

Are you dumb? That spearhead review was a shiny endorsement. It even calls the book red pill:

This book administers an economic “red pill” to the college-bound, so as to ensure they don’t end up like this woman, who racked up just under $100,000 in student loans for her interdisciplinary degree in religious and women’s studies and struggles to find gainful employment that will service her debt. Key quote: “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life slaving away to pay for an education I got for four years and would happily give back”.

Take this BP crap out of here.

watersign · 2013-08-16T21:46:26+00:00

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