Socialization of Individual Risks \ stacker news ~charts_and

1199 sats \ 17 comments \ @TomK 29 Oct charts_and_numbers

This is an alarming social trend in the countries of the bed: young men who can no longer find a job or are not in education and are therefore no longer able to develop any goals for a self-determined life.

Increasing socialization of individual risks (welfare state) has led to this catastrophe and it is only the beginning, until a social shock will eventually initiate a countermovement.

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75 sats \ 4 replies \ @DesertDave 29 Oct

I have no job and I am not educated. These things have nothing to do with being able to developing goals for a self-determined life for myself. I want to see more men skip both jobs and education while building something that has value. No need for jobs. Jobs are for slaves. Education is brain washing. It will all work out.

32 sats \ 3 replies \ @gmd 29 Oct

Would guess you are the exception and most without job or education are not doing so well living in Mom's basement.

If no trust / bitcoin fund what should these young men be doing / building?

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave 29 Oct

I don't know. Everyone is on their own journey. And going to school and working jobs is part of that for most. But saying all men should be in school or working a job isn't a statement I would make. There are a lot of ways to get to an inspired motivated state.

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 29 Oct

The world is getting more and more expensive in fiat... how to eat without a job?

88 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 29 Oct

Trade skills and services for money or food. Don't make someone else rich. Build your own value for value way of meeting needs. saving in Bitcoin helps a lot. Learn to go with less. grow food. I know it's easier to say than to do. I didn't say it was easy. I understand why people work jobs.

54 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 29 Oct

Pretty much nothing is as destabilizing as lots of idle young men.

66 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave 29 Oct

That energy will go somewhere. It has to. It's okay that the old system is collapsing. Jobs are for slaves.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 30 Oct

Have not worked for an employer since 1981 - the freedom and creativity of self employment suits me better, but for some people, perhaps most, working within a structured hierarchy seems to be their preference...it is probably more 'secure'. Not all employment is slavery...although the fiat monetary system and the debt is fosters is a form of slavery. When younger I preferred to play more than work, but now work is play.

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 30 Oct

That's a good point. That's too strong of a statement. I agree with you.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 30 Oct

Sadly the only way out is to hit rock bottom first.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 30 Oct

Do you mean for individual young men, or society as a whole?

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 30 Oct

Society as a whole, sadly. Yet the only ones who will learn the lesson are young men, who will still have to deal with unbearably clueless older generations which will remain impervious to empirical evidence.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 29 Oct

Eventually the weakness needs to be purged.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 29 Oct

It's part of the process. The strongest men will rebuild something new.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 30 Oct

Yeah, I can think of three just off the top of my head, that live close by.

One boy, 18 years old. He's been living at home since graduating from high school, some mild nagging to look for a job, but in any case no real pressure, the parents give lots of resources, to the point of funding all kinds of special meals, nice clothes, etc.
His 21 year old brother is similar, but the parents have actually been funding an apartment for him. He hasn't been to college nor had a job, ever. I think for the past couple years he's supposedly been working with some friends on a video game, and that enterprise fell apart recently. A girlfriend that (according to the mom) was attracted to him because his parents were funding everything, just left him.
Another young man, probably 22, graduated from a fairly highly ranked college. He's been living at home for 8 months now, no job, doesn't seem to be looking. I think his degree was in chemistry. Anyway, his degree seemed like it something that was reasonable in terms of job prospects, not underwater basket weaving or anything like that.

I think a part of it is that some parents don't have much of a social life. And so if the kids are halfway pleasant to be around, they don't necessarily push them to go live on their own.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 30 Oct

The financialisation of education may have something to do with this. Forcing young people to take on debt to fund privately provided education of dubious value leaves many young people questioning the value of investing time in higher education. If society wants to invest in its future it can it not provide free education to young people rather than putting them into debt? If their education delivers higher incomes then they will repay the cost of education in tax over time. Add to the neoliberal death cult privatisation and debt slavery that has been applied to education our productive economies are failing and productive businesses cannot compete with Chinas and S.E.Asian competition.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr 30 Oct

NEETs rise up.

JK. this is depressing.